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Next morning Dr. Pasztor again met Agent Teleki on a park bench under the linden trees near Vienna's State Court. Nearby, as Teleki's lookout paced Jozsef Kertesz,. first secretary of the Hungarian legation. On other benches, stolid Viennese burghers dozed in the warm May sun. But...
At week's end the Austrian Cabinet met in a special session, peremptorily expelled Teleki and Kertesz as personae non gratae. For the Austrian security police it was the second breakup of a Communist spy ring since last year, when they similarly put out of business an espionage network...
Around the world, another year began for three wise old men: in Seoul, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, 83, watched fireworks and a military parade celebrating his birthday; in Manhattan, energetic ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 80, conceded that "I do have a tendency to get tired if I stay up...
Hidden Bitterness. Hungary's gallant and bloody bolt for freedom brought more repression; Poland's limited nonsanguinary revolution brought less. In Poland, Western newspapers are to be had, and citizens complain about the government with something approaching freedom. In Hungary only newspaper offices and high officials get printed...
William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents...