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...Austria-Hungary, Colonel Alfred Redl, director of the empire's intelligence, betrayed his country to the Russians rather than face exposure as a homosexual. During the ten years that passed before he was discovered and driven to suicide, Redl turned over to Russian intelligence some of the Austro-Hungarian empire's most cherished secrets. Among them were detailed plans for campaigns against Serbia, a fact which somewhat handicapped the Austro-Hungarian army when war with Serbia, Russia's ally, finally came...
...Dulles was transferred to Switzerland when the U.S. entered World War I. In Switzerland he got his first taste of intelligence work. Assigned to the job of gathering political intelligence from southeast Europe, he organized an undercover group which made a determined but unsuccessful effort to lead the Austro-Hungarian empire out of the German camp...
...same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...service to the party (including 15 years in jail) and a longtime intimate of Stalin, was demoted to membership of an eleven-man politburo and a three-man secretariat, modeled after the new Russian-type organization. Into his place as Premier stepped Imre Nagy, 57, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist of only slightly less experience. But the significant change was in policy, not in personnel. With a smiling Rakosi taking a back seat behind the rostrum, new Premier Nagy told a stunned Parliament of the changes that would be effected...
George Barati: Siring Quartet (California Quartet; Contemporary). A fairly brief three-movement work by Hungarian-born Composer Barati, who is also the quartet's cellist. The three movements are consistently thoughtful, occasionally warm, once or twice fiery in a moderately dissonant idiom. Good performance...