Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bustles through. Fresh from his triumphal "election" as Soviet Premier and accompanied by his latest favorite, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (see box, p. 24), Khrushchev descended on Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He bounced out of his TU-104 jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words...
...torture-scarred hands of Janos Kadar were a dual convenience for the Russian conquerors. Those hands could sign the death decrees that crushed revolutionary leadership. And their scars were a reminder that the Premier himself had suffered to the limit (including emasculation) in old Premier Rakosi's Stalinist jail, thus represented to despairing Hungarians a glimmering hope of a better Communist leadership. Kadar soon destroyed what hope there was. His guarantees of democratic reforms never came through; vows of amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support...
...With Kadar, Munnich briefly joined Imre Nagy's revolutionary government, then switched to become Minister of Interior and Defense in the Kadar regime. Two months after the revolution, his new police and army apparatus was working so smoothly that Russian troops could retire to rural barracks...
...Kadar keeps a Cabinet post and does not give up his crucial job as First Secretary of the party. More significant to Hungary experts was the simultaneous promotion of Antal Apro to First Deputy Premier; Apro leads the extreme Stalinist group that has been fighting Kadar for leadership. At the top in Hungary there are tough Communists and tougher Communists. Already many nervous Hungarians wonder if the despised Kadar was not the lesser of the evils...
Sjafruddin bluntly told Sukarno that he has only two choices: "Ask for aid from Russia and other Communist countries in the fashion of Hungary's Janos Kadar ... or, if Your Excellency still loves the Indonesian Republic, return to your constitutional position and form a new Cabinet of men like Mohammed Hatta and the Sultan of Djogjakarta, who enjoy the full confidence of the majority of the Indonesian people. It is up to Your Excellency which way you wish to take...