Word: ferenc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This has done them little good in Hungary where their schools have been nationalized. Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, who tried to oppose the Communists, is in prison on a phony black-marketing charge. Ferenc Nagy, a leading Presbyterian who as Premier tried to collaborate with the Communists, was forced to flee the country...
This charge was a typical Communist distortion. Truth was that one day in 1944, Hungary's Nazi dictator Ferenc Sza-lasi had decided to set up headquarters in the bishop's palace. Mindszenty, who was sheltering about 100 Jews in his cellar at the time, declared that so long as he was bishop, none of Szalasi's men would enter. The Nazis promptly occupied the palace. The police found a sizable store of clothes which Mindszenty had quietly collected for Hungary's persecuted and pillaged Jewry. The clothes included underwear which Szalasi had wanted...
...Kick In the Teeth. Another satellite ex-Premier who had to flee, Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nod-ye) of Hungary, told his story last week in The Struggle Behind the Iron Curtain (Macmillan; $6). He, too, paints a picture of Stalin; this one, Stalin the Genial Conciliator...
...have touches of warmth and wit, but most of it is a purely mechanical sponging of the emotions, or a frantic clutching at comic and dramatic straws. The characters are too often mere plushy stage furniture, exploited rather than explored. Only Refugee Actress Darvas (wife of famed Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar) possesses real rather than synthetic dignity and charm...
...austerity shuttered Budapest's gambling joints, the boys in Szabadsag Ter (Liberty Square) offered outdoor odds of four to one against President Zoltan Til-dy's chances of surviving his precarious alliance with the Communists. Fourteen months ago, when he weathered the storm that whisked ex-Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile, 3,000,000 forints (about $250,000) in bets changed hands. The boys on Szabadsag Ter should have waited...