Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter immigration law, but its changes fell far short of those urged by the Administration and left some 25,000 freedom-fighting Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a sort of legal limbo as "parolees...
...tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe was buried under the snowdrifts of renewed cultural repression. Bleakly, Kantor declined to sign a petition ordered by Party Boss Walter Ulbricht condemning the role of the Petofi Club in touching off the Hungarian revolt. The trial last March of his fellow professor. Wolfgang Harich...
...nationalism, hatred of Israel and opposition to Western "imperialism" that many Arab nationalists could see no difference between their own policy and that of the Soviet Union. They might not be under Communist discipline, but they were deeply under Communist influence. Item: Syrian newspapers carried no news of the Hungarian revolt except what was put out by the Russians. Friendship and trade with Russia and Communist-bloc nations increase steadily...
...based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
...fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post at the end of his present home leave...