Word: herta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt of my attitude. Their method is not the Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation...
Goodbye It looked for a time as though the world might learn some of the answers to a perplexing intrigue of the cold war: the case of the American ex-diplomat Noel Field, and his wife Herta. When the Hungarian government suddenly freed them after five years in prison on trumped-up spy charges, U.S. diplomatic officials in Budapest saw them briefly. It was possibly the last meeting Noel and Herta Field would ever have with their countrymen. Over Budapest radio last week came the announcement that Noel and Herta Field had asked for and had been granted "political asylum...
Noel Field disappeared from his hotel in Prague two weeks before Chambers started testifying in the Hiss trial in early 1949. His wife Herta, his brother Hermann, and finally, his adopted daughter Erika Glaser Wallach, went behind the Iron Curtain to look for him. One after another, like the three little Indians, they vanished-one, two, three...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...loath to return with him to Yugoslavia, finally consented, only to leave him ten years later (in 1929) when he refused to settle down and give up his revolutionary activities. She is said to have died in Russia some time in the late '30s. The second wife, Herta, whom Tito married in 1939, was taken prisoner four years later by Yugoslavia's pro-Nazi quisling government. Tito, head of the Partisan government in the mountains, bailed her out by trading eleven Nazi prisoners for her freedom. They were divorced...