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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...
...Ready." On the same day that the test ban agreement was signed, Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar made a little-noticed speech over Radio Budapest. Said he: "I met the American delegation, which was just negotiating the nuclear test ban treaty, several times. In the course of these meetings, the members of the American delegation declared that they want to normalize their relations with the Hungarian People's Republic. We are ready to normalize relations...
...HUNGARY is hospitable to Western in fluence, as long as it does not offend its rulers by being openly antiCommunist. Budapest's relatively relaxed ways are largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to erase the bloody stains of 1956, when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have...
...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...
...heads of the delegates. The Kremlin splashed a policy statement on the front page of Pravda that ominously warned Peking of the "dangerous consequences" of its policy. As for Nikita Khrushchev, he called out the brass bands, honor guard and television cameras to welcome Hungary's Janos Kadar, who repaid the flattery by once again backing Moscow's line of peaceful coexistence...