Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gifted Hungarian-born George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile...
Surplus Food. Seven hundred people -peasants, workmen, other townspeople -jammed the hotel's auditorium to capacity. On the stage, the speaker's table was covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side...
Immediately came the crowd's response: "Long live the Hungarian Republic. Long live freedom...
Apparently the anti-Communist fathers of the Hungarian Republic never heard of what Ben Franklin said about hanging together. In any event, they did not, and so they were, in a political sense, hanging separately...
...Communist-sponsored Government White Paper last week implicated Tildy in "the conspiracy against Hungarian democracy." At the same time it accused the British of encouraging a Habsburg restoration. Tildy still denied any uneasiness; he was quietly fishing in Lake Balaton last week, and telling callers: "I will not resign, I never intended to resign, I never attempted to resign." In spite of these protestations, he was, in fact, trying to flee the country of which he was President...