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Died. Theodor Koerner, 83, President of Austria since 1951 and former mayor of Vienna (1945-51), a tall, white-bearded onetime aristocrat who became a hero early in World War I, was made chief of staff of Austro-Hungarian forces on the Italian front, in 1918 took an oath of loyalty to the first Austrian Republic after the collapse of the empire; of a stroke; in Grinzing, near Vienna...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...
...Hungarian and Rumanian athletes who refused to return to their Communist-controlled native countries after the recent Melbourne Olympics will compete in M.I.T.'s Alumni Pool Wednesday night...
...group of ten Hungarian refugees now staying in the Cambridge area will begin a special, intensive English course Wednesday, conducted by John M. Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, and Miss Christine Gibson of the Language Research Center...
...refugees were assisted in their flight by Hungarian border guards, a contingent of the secret police. Mr. Szabo explained there were two groups of Hungarian secret police. The "greens" at the border assisted the refugees, while the "blues" in the cities fought against the revolutionaries...