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...control of a country Matyas Rakosi once wrote, is to demand a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice." Rakosalami tactics made Hungary one of the most useful of Soviet satellites. Slice by slice, Hungarian agricultural productivity was cut down to make way for industrial projects. Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm workers into the factories, and the fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that...
Talking Big. When Malenkov took over, Rakosi was ordered to get away from the salami. He yielded the premiership to rotund Imre Nagy (rhymes with budge), another oldtime Hungarian Communist, who was a Hungarian language broadcaster in Moscow during World War II. Nagy talked big: "The decision to make Hungary a country of steel and iron was an expression of megalomaniac economic policy." Past faults of the party he ascribed to "one-man leadership which relied on a narrow circle, and the silencing of criticism and self-criticism." Nagy ordered more consumer goods, relaxed police controls and let the collectivization...
Intent on those two aims-service to his adopted country and the cooperation of scientists in the pursuit of truth-Hungarian-born Scientist Teller carefully refrains from raking over the old controversy about whether an H-bomb should be attempted. He says he does not know enough to write of the political controversy over the H-bomb, "but I feel that great gratitude is due to the men who in those difficult weeks [after the Soviet atomic explosion about Sept. 1, 1949] arrived at the correct conclusions," i.e., to proceed with all possible speed toward the development...
...Dark Is Light Enough finds Christopher Fry occupied with the soberer side of life-or, at any rate, of language. Described as a "winter comedy" and set, during the 1848 Hungarian revolt, in an Austro-Hungarian country house, it uses the framework of costume drama to pursue philosophical truth. Fry's titled chatelaine is a sort of spiritual Lady Bountiful who hides in her house a scoundrelly deserter who was once her son-in-law. The situation, affecting a great many people, new-facets such old themes of romantic drama as love, compassion, loyalty...
...Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested he: "People who have...