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...sick, haggard old man walked out of a Hungarian prison last week, a startling anachronism amid the Communist campaign of sweetness and light. After more than six years of imprisonment on charges of treason, espionage and black-market dealings, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, 63-year-old Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, had his freedom...
Young Rudolf Kastner had been a fixer in a small Hungarian town. When Admiral Horthy capitulated to Hitler in 1944, Kastner was head of Budapest's Jewish Rescue Committee. Soon after the Nazis took over, Kastner and some of his colleagues were called before Karl Eichmann, a top Nazi official, to listen to a proposition. "I want to do business," Eichmann told them. "Blood for goods, goods for blood. I am willing to sell one million Jews for ten thousand trucks, a thousand cans of coffee and tea and some soap. Go to Switzerland, Turkey, Spain-go where...
...contacts overseas (one of them, Moshe Sharett, is now Israel's Prime Minister) told him to make a noncommittal answer and keep bargaining. Day after day as the bargainers waited through the spring and summer of 1944, packjammed trainloads of Jews chugged through the pleasant green Hungarian countryside to the camp at Auschwitz, where, instead of being set to forced labor, the prisoners were herded naked into gas chambers, killed and cremated...
...Among the more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews who died that year in Auschwitz' deadly shower rooms were 52 members of the family of Malchiel Greenwald. Malchiel himself managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding...
...this new Russian offensive no inconsistency embarrassed them, no reversal deterred them. Satellites were left floundering in confusion. The Hungarian press struck out of the Belgrade communiqué the clause referring to the several roads of Communism, printed it next day only on direct Russian orders. The Communist Poles were aghast at the invitation to Adenauer (formerly referred to by the Russians as "Hitlerite militarist adventurer...