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...rebels and criminals." Five of the arrested were condemned to death and one executed, said Radio Budapest, hinting at mass trials to come. Western sources gave a grimmer estimate of AVH efficiency: over a period of "several days," Western diplomats reported, 241 persons had been executed by summary courts-martial, 170 of them in Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Ideological Struggle | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Nuri proclaimed martial law, closed schools, clapped on heavy censorship and arrested about 100 political foes. Last week his Baghdad government announced that five opposition leaders had been court-martialed and sentenced for under mining public security. Kamel Chaderchy, former Minister of National Economy and Transport and head of the left-wing National Democratic Party, was sentenced to three years' hard labor. "Nuri has ridden out the storm," said U.S. Ambassador Waldemar John Gallman, and took off for a month's home leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Man on Camelback | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the police got word of the coming strike. Kadar slapped martial law on the country, cut off all outgoing telephone circuits. Then he quietly took over the Central Council telephones in their headquarters. Factory and council representatives, mystified by rumors, called up asking, "What's the decision?" Kadar's men replied: "Can't tell you on the phone. Come around." One by one the factory-council representatives were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Dominate or Be Destroyed | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

This week, as the Budapest Central Council ordered a two-day general strike to begin Monday night, the government dissolved all workers' councils, declared a state of martial law, and cut off all communication with the outside. The struggle for power went on in hapless Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Rivalry of Exhaustion | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...than in this tale of bold emprise in old Nippon. In his latest film, Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon) has plucked the epic string. And though at times, in the usual Japanese fashion, some dismal flats and rather hysterical sharps can be heard, the lay of this Oriental minstrel has a martial thrum and fervor that should be readily understood even in those parts of the world that do not speak the story's language. Violence, as Kurosawa eloquently speaks it, is a universal language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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