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...delegation was organized last spring by a group called the American Festival Committee, with headquarters in a dingy building on Bleecker St. in downtown Manhattan. People wishing to attend the festival had to make arrangements through this committee; the Hungarian government was unusually willing to approve all visa applications made through the group. Anyone who wished to go to the festival and could play his way was welcome--the only restriction was that no purely "observers" were allowed, all had to be members of the delegation...
When the U. S. group arrived in Budapest on Aug. 14, it found the Hungarian government had turned over large areas of its capital city to the festival. Buses had been commandeered for transportation. The best restaurants in town were used to feed the delegates. The Amusement Park on Margaret Island in the Danube was carmarked for use by Festival people. So were the city's enormous public baths...
...these facilities were packaged and sold to the delegates for forty dollars for the two weeks stay. The U. S. delegates were bedded down in acollege dormitory with newly-in-stalled additional plumbing; they were assigned interpreters by the Hungarian government. They were given periodicals to keep them up on world events. "The Hungarians did a damn good job." and one of the delegates...
...head of the Hungarian Festival Committee welcomed the U. S. delegates to the ceremony. So did the chiefs of other important groups: a U. S. S. R. Youth Organization, "Free" China, and France. According to one American student who attended the ceremony, "their speeches were standard stuff--the vague, welcome-to-our-fair-city type of thing...
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...