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Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...
Hungary's Communist government last week took over almost every privately owned plant and shop employing more than ten workers. The nationalization decree included foreign-owned businesses. Interesting exception: Soviet-Hungarian joint stock companies (most of the oil, all aviation and shipping) were left undisturbed...
...Dunster House: "Professor Schumpeter has been associated with Dunster House almost since its inception. Busy with world affairs as well as his teaching. Professor Schumpeter nevertheless found time to take an interest in the meetings of the staff and students of the House. A native of the Austro-Hungarian empire, he brought a certain old-world courtliness into this dealings with men. This manner pointed up the elegance as well as the intellectual quality of his mind and word...
...charge d'affaires who had the riot act read to him. Dr. Peter Voutov listened silently for 15 minutes while Under Secretary of State Jim Webb demanded an end to the nonsense of trying to implicate U.S. Minister Donald R. Heath in Sofia's espionage trials. Then Hungarian Minister Imre Horvath was summoned to the State Department, dressed down in terms he could barely understand (because his English is poor). For closer study, he got a formal protest note to be sent to his government...
From the Spire. Last week, as Viennese again mounted the 343 precarious steps to the observation platform just above the lookout of 1683, they still talked about "the Turks," but they meant the Russians. From St. Stephen's, on a clear day, Viennese could see the Red Hungarian border, 40 miles away. They knew it was strung with barbed wire, studded with police stations-as ominous as the camels and the silken tents of the 17h Century Turks...