Word: horvath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years no delegate has been so roundly denounced or so contemptuously pointed at as Imre Horvath, Foreign Minister in Hungary's puppet Kadar government. One morning last week, Imre Horvath rose to complain: "A number of delegations have rudely and disgracefully offended the government of the Hungarian People's Republic. The Hungarian delegation will therefore not participate in the work of the ... General Assembly so long as the discussion of the Hungarian question does not proceed in the spirit of the U.N. Charter." Then, packing up their papers, Horvath and his aides walked out.*"One Soviet agent...
...Horvath's departure did not halt discussion of a resolution condemning Russia for her intervention in Hungary. Even Burma, once a pillar of Asian neutralism, joined in the attack. "There, speaking of Hungary, but for the grace of God go we," said Burmese Delegate...
Doing something about the bloody oppression in Hungary, however, came harder. Early last week Hungarian Foreign Minister Imre Horvath somewhat evasively announced that the puppet government of Janos Kadar was ready to discuss plans for U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's proposed trip to Hungary. When Hammarskjold replied that he was prepared to arrive in Budapest on Dec. 16, Horvath equably relayed this information to his government...
...obvious next step for the General Assembly was one that some U.N. members had been urging, and others holding out against, for three weeks-suspension of Horvath and the rest of the Kadar government's U.N. delegation...
...Mandate. Soon the light began to dawn on Studebaker workers. Horvath began getting phone calls from union members complaining about the vote; half a dozen petitions, each bearing 75 to 100 signatures and asking for reconsideration of the proposal, landed on his desk. He called an emergency session of his 20-member executive committee, and another membership meeting was scheduled. When the rank-and-file turned out to vote on the wage cut last week, their changed temper was obvious. Warned one opponent: "This is a deal you're going to have to live with for a long time...