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...important (21%) minority.) Early Days: after commercial school, became a locksmith's apprentice, then a mechanic. When World War I broke out, big, burly (200 lbs.) Imre was drafted into Austro-Hungarian army, wounded on Italian front, later captured by Russians, who sent him to Siberia. When the Czarist regime cracked he joined the Bolsheviks, was captured while fighting White Guards, escaped. Carried revolution to Hungary as minor lieutenant of famed Hungarian Communist Bela Kun, who ruled Hungary for 133 days in 1919. When the revolution failed, Bela Kun fled to Russia (where he was executed by Stalin...
Insisting to the last that the whole ugly business was a frame-up engineered by disgruntled Czarist émigrés, officials at the Soviet embassy in London came reluctantly to the conclusion that British justice could not be sidetracked. As Olympic Discus Thrower Nina Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
...also a new twist on the old historians' axiom: the more luxury, the quicker a nation degenerates. This was true enough in Babylon, Greece, Rome, Bourbon France and Czarist Russia, where luxury perched atop a pyramid of misery, ignorance and hopeless poverty-Fabergé eggs sprouting from a dungheap. But in the U.S. luxury has come to mean not a declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope...
...time of the 1917 Revolution terror was justified: "It is a fact that the October Revolution would not have gone beyond the phase of civil war . . . if the proletariat had not shown indomitable will and the ability to take control of the apparatus of power of the Czarist state, to smash it, and to provide a substitute." But here Nenni runs into the dilemma of all Marxists: Once terror is accepted as a legitimate arm of government, how is it brought under control? The whole trouble, admits Nenni sadly, stems directly from the notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
Dulles also pitched in to amend the President's remarks on U.S. history. "In 1823," he said, "President Monroe proclaimed to the despotic alliance then headed by czarist Russia that 'we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . .'It was indeed farsighted and bold for our young nation thus to identify its own self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow...