Word: ference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voice) smuggled papers into Budapest, and 2) Népszava's staff, a Who's Who of the Hungarians Moscow hates most. Editor in chief was Zoltan Pfeiffer, head of the Independence Party in the coalition government that was squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles Peyer, right-wing Socialist leader...
...Ferenc Molnar's reaction, at 70, to the successful Broadway revival of his 21-year-old The Play's the Thing: "I'm grateful and fatherly and all that, but something of me has vanished with the times . . . Who cares about comedies and dramas when all day long . . . you hear and read about nothing but a sorely troubled world...
...Play's the Thing (adapted from the Hungarian of Ferenc Molnar by P. G. Wodehouse; produced by Gilbert Miller, in association with James Russo and Michael Ellis) first reached Broadway-when Molnar was the thing-in the mid-'20s. A successful trifle then, it may easily prove a successful trifle now. If it spends most of its time winking at the audience, if without managing to be a play at all it presumes to offer a play within a play, its suavity saves it. It has that light touch which for so long, with Molnar, proved a Midas...
...also heard an important unofficial suggestion this week: to restore the freedom and independence of Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. It came from members of the International Peasant Union, including former Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy, Bulgarian Opposition Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff, Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek...
...discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept. 22). In Albania, they fabricated an Anglo-American-inspired treason plot to justify death sentences...