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...story of Hungary three years later is still that of puppet rulers holding power only by the presence of 60,000 Russian troops. The Soviet troops are not deployed as a field force against international danger, but scattered in "penny packets" outside each Hungarian town to guard against uprising...
Premier Khrushchev's own speech to the first Hungarian Party Congress since the 1956 revolt held up Hungary as a lesson for all Communists. The "disturbances" of 1956, he said, were "largely due to serious mistakes committed by the former leadership, especially Matyas Rakosi (now in Soviet exile), which undermined the party's authority." Said Khrushchev, in what sounded as if it might be a warning hint for Peking: "If the leadership of this or that country becomes conceited, if we distort the doctrines of Marxism-Leninism in the building of socialism and Communism, these mistakes...
...second-rate Guatemala City hotel, flitted in and out of the country on unexplained missions. With the Jacobo Arbenz government falling, Guevara tried to organize guerrillas to fight, then fled to Mexico, where he joined the Gramma band. Guevara, who denies that he is a Communist, insists that the Hungarian revolution was "fomented against the people's democracy by Fascists and imperialists...
...credit side, and almost worth the price of admission, is Johann Strauss's delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...
...story-involving an exiled Hungarian nobleman returning to claim his father's estate, a beautiful gypsy maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...