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...battles-or series of battles-in World War II. From the Baltic to the Carpathians the Russians had ready nine army groups of perhaps 300 divisions (two more army groups were already moving in Yugoslavia and Hungary). Against them the Germans had ready an estimated 180 divisions (plus 24 Hungarian divisions already occupied in the south...
They began when the Red Army, having swept up most of southeastern Europe, began to roll across the Alföld, the vast Hungarian plain, toward Budapest. Aged (76) Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy had asked the Allies for an armistice. Thereupon Major Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian Nazi leader, took over the Government. The Germans took over Horthy, carried him off to Germany, together with Hungary's national gold reserve of 80,000,000 pengö ($27,500,000). But the Hungarian peace delegation had already flown to Moscow...
...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
Last week, Colonel General Janos Vörös, chief of the Hungarian Army general staff, who had gone over to the Red Army, broadcast an appeal to his troops from Moscow, ordered them to desert with their weapons and equipment to the Russian side. General Vörös said that he spoke in the name of Horthy's regency. Though the Russians for more than two decades had denounced the testy old Admiral as a fascist, General Vörös ended his broadcast to Hungarians with the words: "Long live free, democratic Hungary...
...Chemistry (the 1944 prize will be awarded later)-Georg von Hevesy, 59, Hungarian-born professor at Copenhagen's Institute of Theoretical Physics, now a refugee in Stockholm...