Word: legatione
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Even more than most Soviet satellites, the regime of Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar is regarded by the U.S. with revulsion. Ever since Kadar was installed by Soviet bayonets that snuffed out the 1956 revolution, the U.S. conducts almost no trade relations with Hungary, maintains a skeleton legation and only a...
Invited to Budapest was Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who apparently accepted despite the fact that Hungary still stands officially condemned by the U.N. (Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had...
Died. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, 73, acting head of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; at Kalocsa, Hungary. Arrested in 1951, Archbishop Grosz "confessed" to assorted anti-Red crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956...
*Cardinal Mindszenty, considered Primate of Hungary by the Vatican, is still isolated in two-room quarters at the legation, where he reads, prays and takes a daily, half-hour stroll in the courtyard while Hungarian secret police keep a 24-hour watch outside.
A. I accept only the directives of my archbishop [Cardinal Mindszenty, who ever since the 1956 revolt has been a refugee in the U.S. legation], and he is not now in a position to give me directives.