Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast, fluent, implausible yarn of amorous and political intrigue inside Turkey, featuring an American girl with a past, a British intelligence agent, a Nazi provocateur, a Hungarian harlot, and the Lend-Lease Administration...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...
...Hungary, Russia last week chalked up another political victory. While Budapest was in flames (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), the Moscow radio announced a new Hungarian National Provisional Government at Debrecen, 120 miles to the east. It promptly promised an early armistice and administration of the conquered three-fourths of Hungary, on the pattern of Rumania and Bulgaria...
Head of the Government was Colonel General Béla Miklos de Dalnok, 56, former commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government...
...Hungarians expected the new Government to be permanent. In London, tall, limping Count Michael Karolyi who heads a Hungarian Council in Britain, welcomed the Debrecen regime, but hopefully characterized it as "for the transition period." But Moscow's formula at Debrecen might be the beginning of permanency. By knowing the people (thanks to the help of the Communist Party) and having its Army on the ground in impressive force, Russia had scored again...