Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
...Hungarian Communists would have had no trouble finding a drug suitable for duping Cardinal Mindszenty into making statements against his will, Dr. Otto Krayer, associate professor of Comparative Pharmacology, declared yesterday...
...Hungarian census taken in late 1945 was unsatisfactory. It did not give enough information to serve the Communists as a record of the population's political reliability. On the basis of a new census completed Jan. 20, a card index for exclusive government use is now being set up in Communist Boss Rakosi's Central Registry offices...
...importance of these classifications in a totalitarian state is obvious. A Hungarian applying for a job, a marriage license, a business permit, a ration card, or anything requiring public regulation will be dealt with according to the color and contents of his card...
Rakosi also put the tab on Hungarian canines. A government decree issued last week restricts breeding to purebred, pedigreed dogs, which make up less than 1% of Hungary's 1,000,000 canine population. Henceforth, all mongrel males over one year old are to be sterilized. Dog owners who violate the law are liable to as much as six months in prison. Quipped one Budapest wit: "They want to kill the purebred humans and save the purebred dogs...