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...Tito's Yugoslavia as lands that had rescued themselves from "oppressive forces" that "wanted to colonize them"-but in such an ambiguous way that he could always tell the Russians that the only oppressors he had in mind in Yugoslavia's case were the old Austro-Hungarian empire or the Nazis...
...this were really a detective story, it would be unfair to report that Ilona, the slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...
...most complicated metaphor of this season's hot-weather literature, a randy old Hungarian dandy likens the American girl to the avocado: "A hard center with the tender meat all wrapped up in a shiny casing. So green-so eternally green . . . And I will tell you something really extraordinary. Do you know that you can take the stones of these luscious fruits, put them in water-just plain water, mind you . . . and in three months up comes a sturdy little plant full of green leaves? This is their sturdy little souls bursting into bloom...
What Nikita Khrushchev so proudly calls "the Socialist Camp" is an armed camp, and not since the Hungarian revolt itself has the naked face of tyranny been so apparent as since the recent execution of Imre Nagy. Last week the U.S. reported to the U.N. that at least 100 imprisoned Nagy supporters are now facing trial in Hungary, and Belgrade reported that six more Hungarians had been executed. At this particular moment, the big boss of this armed camp descended on East Germany, the most heavily occupied (33 divisions) ramparts of his empire, breathing defiance and confidence...
...admitted our mistakes," roared Nikita (Hungarian Party Boss Janos Kadar, who served in Nagy's Cabinet and later assured his people that Nagy would not be punished, listened stolidly from his seat among the foreign delegates). "The Yugoslav leaders didn't. They have too little courage to tell their people they are responsible for this conflict. They say we falsify Marxism-Leninism. Then why has the U.S.S.R. had such great successes? Comrades, the lid does not fit the jar, as the saying goes. What success can the Yugoslav leaders, who call themselves Marxists, show...