Word: kadar
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...government faced with public unrest over economic troubles. It also stirred hope again that Cardinal Mindszenty might soon leave his lonely exile in the U.S. legation in Budapest. For in Prague to hear the news of Beran's freedom was Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar, the Red satellite leader who seems most eager to reach some new form of concord with the church...
Hungary's new look is largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to wipe out the stain of having personally called in Russian troops and tanks to suppress the 1956 revolution. Having found that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political unrest, Kadar has made Hungary - next to Poland - the most liberal of the satellite regimes. That, of course, is still very much a relative matter, but Hungarians are grateful for small favors. "Times can never be the same again," says...
...revolt was not in vain." Subtle Revision. Kadar's new stance has had a favorable effect at the U.N., which since 1956 has refused to approve or disapprove the credentials of Kadar's U.N. delegates (though they actually take part in debates and vote). The final trace of U.N. disapproval disappeared recently when Secretary-General U Thant spent three days in Hungary and seven hours with Kadar himself. Even the U.S., unable to round up continued support to block Hungarian accreditation, will not oppose the official seating of Hungary's delegation at the next General Assembly session...
Aiming to "humanize Communism," Kadar has sacked Stalinist political hacks, appointed non-Communists to Cabinet posts, and allowed nonparty members to serve in the Parliament. He has granted amnesty to thousands of political prisoners and encouraged refugees who fled in 1956 to return with free pardons; today the government claims that more than one-third of 1956's 200,000 refugees have come back home. Worker membership in the Communist Party is not a sure guarantee of success. "We are not going to give red bloods the same privilege once enjoyed by bluebloods," says Kadar...
...Kadar's "respectability" finally won the regime an unchallenged seat at the United Nations. Last week from Rome, Pope Paul VI sent a message to Hungarian bishops announcing the expectation of "good news," a hint that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty may soon be allowed by the Reds to leave the U.S. legation, where he has been holed up for almost seven years under 24-hour watch by Budapest police. After the revolution of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that many people thought his countrymen were the "reddest republicans in Europe." Today, Hungary's people...