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Nagy knew that the Soviet tanks, so sharply stopped by the young rebels, were merely drawn from one of the nearby divisions, and were no measure of the true strength of the Red army. He knew that new divisions were massing on Hungary's frontiers. He saw Soviet diplomats...
Early on the fifth day of the revolution, the Soviet leaders made a crucial decision: they agreed that Hungary should have a new government in which two (out of 28) ministers would be nonCommunists. Premier Nagy announced that Bela Kovacs would be Minister of Agriculture, and Zoltan Tildy Minister of...
But the name of Bela Kovacs was something for Nagy to conjure with. A husky, muscular peasant from Pecs, a good speaker, Kovacs was the organizational genius of the Smallholders until arrested in 1947, forced to "confess" and shipped off to Siberia. Earlier this year, after nine years in Soviet...
The Takeover: Nagy played a role in the formation (December 1944) of provisional government at Debrecen, a coalition of Communists, Social Democrats and Smallholders.. Free election one year later gave democratic elements smashing victory (Smallholders, 2,688,161 votes; Social Democrats, 821,566; Communists, 800,257), but Soviet influence...
Best of the lot is NBC's Ernie Kovacs Show (Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T., replacing Caesar's Hour), an erratic, off-beat comedy hour during which Kovacs may become Pierre Ragout, French raconteur; Uncle Gruesome, specialist in bedtime stories for morbid children; or J. Walter Puppybreath, maker of...