Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hungarian government has not disclosed the charges, but a U.S. Embassy official said he understood that Miss Blueye and the Italian, Mario Rocchini, are accused of "trying to smuggle an East German citizen out of Hungary...
...line of their pro-Wallace state- ment read: "The whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flnging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vast ness of America roared...
There has been no formal charge or indictment yet, the official said. The American Embassy in Budapest is in touch with Miss Blueye's lawyer and with the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he added. The American Consul saw Miss Blueye on September 18, and reported that she seemed in good spirits, and that she was being treated well...
...made. I was, however, disturbed by the article "Historic Quest for Freedom." It was misleading in passing off the history of Czechoslovakia as a history of Bohemia. No mention was made of the determination and success of the Slovaks in maintaining their national identity during 1,000 years of Hungarian domination. Because Slovak nationalism is recognized as one of the prime factors in Dubcek's rise to power, I do not think this matter should be taken so lightly. It explains the Czech-Slovak federation and the Slovak struggle for equal status since the Pittsburgh Agreement...
...German and Austro-Hungarian empires crumbled in defeat, Masaryk and Benes went home to put their concepts of freedom into practice. From the first, the Czechoslovaks proved that they could indeed govern themselves. During the turbulent 1920s and early 1930s, while democratic governments gave way to dictatorships in neighboring countries, the Czechoslovaks retained a parliamentary government, pursued moderate policies and enjoyed relative economic stability. Ethnically, however, the nation was a melange of peoples?the dominant Czechs, restive Slovaks and some 3,000,000 Germans who wanted to be united with the Reich...