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Pfeiffer then moved his followers on the nearby town of Csongrad and tried again. The Reds attacked Pfeiffer and one of his lieutenants with bicycle pumps, shoemaker's pliers and clubs. Pfeiffer was taken home "half dead," his friends said. A U.S. Army doctor who tried to examine him was waved away; even Hungarian civilian doctors were barred. A Communist-appointed police surgeon took over the case, pronounced the patient's injuries superficial. If that was so, Pfeiffer's wife wanted to know, why had her husband not regained consciousness? Oh, said the police surgeon, somebody...
...Csongrad, Hungary, Jewish women gave a charity ball. Unbeknownst to them, several members of the "Awakening Hungarians," a Budapest organization with pronounced views on Hungarian independence, entered the hall. At the height of the festivities, an "Awakening Hungarian" rolled a bomb across the dance floor. One Jewish woman was killed, 50 were injured...
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