Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more than most Soviet satellites, the regime of Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar is regarded by the U.S. with revulsion. Ever since Kadar was installed by Soviet bayonets that snuffed out the 1956 revolution, the U.S. conducts almost no trade relations with Hungary, maintains a skeleton legation and only a chargé d'affaires in Budapest. In addition, on the motion of the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly every year schedules the Hungarian question for debate, receives a report from the U.N.'s special representative, New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro, on the continuing suppression of human...
...Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared to consider "betterment of relations between the two governments...
From Washington, State Department reaction to the deal was swift and damning: to propose trading Cardinal Mindszenty for U.S. reconciliation with the Kadar regime or for dropping the Hungarian question from the U.N. agenda is simply a form of blackmail...
...among Europe's greatest-had a history rich with the influence of Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Goethe and Leibnitz. The Nazis killed all that; the Russians buried it. The East Berlin plant survives as Humboldt University, a dreary institution with about 10,000 students. Humboldt nearly exploded during the Hungarian revolt in 1956; scores of its students and professors have vanished into East German jails, and many have been executed. Ordered to sign up for the East German army or be expelled, Humboldt's students recently wrote to Free University students: "Help us! We are sons and daughters...
...Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically, he tried to tone down its blistering language...