Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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York Herald Tribune's Gaston Coblentz, all in Belgrade; the London Times' Michael Burn, in Budapest; United Press' Richard S. Clark, in Prague...
...Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry. Low's deck of cards was virtually snatched from him by a waiter in a Budapest cafe, and the current demand for them throughout the Balkans is apparently unlimited...
...treaties provided for an 18 months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
...things looked pretty bleak in Communism's domains. In Budapest, you must not cry. In Moscow, you must not laugh except at prescribed subjects. All you could do was to shut...
...Budapest's csardas alley was terror-stricken. If a Hungarian could not write about gypsy sweethearts, wishing wells and bachelor flats, what could he write about? Grimly, the boys buckled down to the rhythm of the new democracy. One new Hungarian song presents the revised new view of the good old days. Before the Communists took over, relates the song, a certain "have-not peasant" could not even afford to buy a new shirt or pants, while the landlord's dog grew fat on the peasant's produce. Then, the Communist land reform gave the peasant four...