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...peculiarly vulnerable position: although 38-year-old E.T.U. Member Leslie Cannon had been elected a delegate to the congress by the union's membership, Frank Foulkes and "Squeaky" Haxell had refused to accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped to the rostrum to demand a debate on this piece of party-lining highhandedness, the congress exploded into an angry uproar. With Cannon looking on from the visitors' gallery, Communist Foulkes defiantly proclaimed that it was nobody else...
...Stalin purged his foes within the Soviet hierarchy, he put them away with historic callousness: most of them were summarily shot. This precedent is still honored on occasion in satellite nations such as Rumania, which, in the course of its current purge of "revisionists," recently executed eight citizens of Hungarian ancestry accused of "separatist plotting." But in Russia itself, Nikita Khrushchev, with a little more refinement, generally spares the lives of the men he purges, subjects them instead to a Muscovite version of the Chinese water torture...
Divorced from Hungarian Writer Josef Bard after four years of marriage, Dorothy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to embark on a new career: wife to Novelist Sinclair Lewis. As energetic a spouse as she was reporter, she gave up heavy reading for menu planning, bore Lewis a son, hosted his parties. But as Dorothy and "Red" drifted apart (they separated in 1937), she took on more and more work...
...amnesty for all Albanian jailbirds, made lavish distributions of gold among the local chieftains. (To this day, one former foreign consul in Albania argues that no mere circus performer ever had that much money to spend, remains convinced that Otto was acting as an agent of the Austro-Hungarian government.) Then, genuine telegrams began to pour in from Constantinople. "It was a shame," Otto used to tell his admirers. "I would have established a fine, wise government." But "to avoid unnecessary bloodshed'' (his own), Otto slipped quietly out of town...
...style voting machine, he said, "I voted for peace." Remotely controlled mechanical hands that struck a match were "symbolic," for "one day an inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov's warmest memories: "What a beautiful city, what a beautiful country! But such foolish things have happened there. Some people have called it counterrevolution; some called it revolution. I think it was just foolishness. Perhaps it would have been possible not to give...