Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years shark-mouthed Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's Communist boss, had been casting covetous eyes at MAORT (Magyar Amerikai Olajipari Rt.), the $25 million American-owned Hungarian affiliate of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Behind his greed was Moscow pressure: the American concession controlled richer fields than the Soviet-dominated joint company, Hungary's only other oil producer. The Russians had operated MAORT for a short time under Red army occupation, and wanted it back. Last week, Rakosi seized MAORT and in Washington the two U.S. citizen executives from whom he took it summed up the Rakosi expropriation method...
...MAORT's president, Paul Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...
...were periodically made to stand with their faces to a wall, noses and toes touching it, hands over their heads. Questioners worked in relays. Most questions were variations on two basic themes: 1) Was it not true that their real purpose in Hungary was to sabotage the Hungarian government? 2) had they not been doing this by curtailing production? Their answers were continuously interrupted by shouts of "You're lying!" The first interrogation lasted six hours; the second, which began three hours later, lasted 15. Not until it ended were they given their first prison food-water, bread...
...prim these days. Last June, in a discussion of plans for receiving Hungary's Premier Lajos Dinnyes, Ana said: "I've heard Dinnyes likes to have girls presented to him. This won't happen in Bucharest; I don't approve of official assignations." Hungarian Communists, hurt by Ana's attitude, say that Comrade Dinnyes found his own girls without any help from Comrade Pauker...
...Budapest believed this charge. Hungarian Lutherans have never had a financial scandal. Hungarians merely recalled that last March, when the Communists demanded a Lutheran endorsement of their "people's democracy," the Lutherans had endorsed "Kossuth's democracy." Ever since, Lutherans have stubbornly resisted Communist efforts to take over their church...