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...Western opportunity, reacted again and again at the popular level to events bearing on freedom and justice in distant lands. In 1849, for example, Americans and Britons alike were sympathetic with the erupting nationalist revolutions in Europe, and particularly indignant about the Habsburgs' brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolution. In September 1849, well before the days when there was a Hungarian bloc anywhere in the U.S., a promising Illinois Congressman named Abraham Lincoln proposed a resolution to a pro-Hungarian mass meeting: "Resolved that in the opinion of this meeting, the immediate acknowledgement of the independence of Hungary...
Recently, Dr. Bela Fabian, a Hungarian emigre living in New York, reminded Britons of their share in this same upblazing of indignation. In a letter to Time & Tide, he recalled the visit to London of Austrian General Julius Jacob Haynau in 1850. Haynau was known in Britain as "The Hyena" because, in suppressing the Hungarian war, he executed 13 commanding generals at the fortress of Arad, and ordered women stripped and flogged in the streets for speaking for rebels...
Inhabitants of the Austrian village of Pamhagen on the Hungarian border were just finishing lunch when four MIG jets came screaming across into Austria from Hungary. The two planes in front, bearing Hungarian air-force markings, were being pursued and fired upon by the two planes in the rear, bearing Russian markings. Suddenly one of the Hungarian planes banked to turn, and the leading Russian plane collided with it. The Hungarian plane crashed and exploded with the pilot at the controls. The Russian plane also crashed, but its pilot came floating down to earth by parachute. Picked up by Austrian...
Captain Konoklov's story did not stand up to the evidence of the crashed planes, and scores of eyewitnesses who had seen the Russian seemingly maneuver his plane into the Hungarian and, seconds before the crash, hit the air in his ejection seat. Taxed with this evidence, Konoklov admitted, just before stepping back into Hungary, that he and his wing man had been chasing two escaping Hungarian pilots and, failing to shoot one down, had rammed it. The second Hungarian plane apparently got away, but where it landed (whether in West Germany or Yugoslavia) was one of the week...
Died. Sir Alexander Korda, 62, British cinemogul (Rembrandt, The Red Shoes); of a heart attack; in London. Hungarian-born Korda made his first films in a shed on the outskirts of Budapest after World War I, in 1931 put the British film industry on the map with his The Private Life of Henry VIII, with a cast of unknown performers (Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon). He married Actress Oberon, lost a fortune, then bounded back with London Film Productions, Ltd., was knighted...