Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conversation, but the others were suspicious of her. At first there was no answer. But after repeatedly tapping out her name she discovered that the man in the cell below hers was an old friend of her father's. The man in the cell next to his was Paul Ignotus...
...cell to another, were slow and ceased altogether when suspicious guards were listening, or the prison plumbing gurgled. Then Florence tensely listening discovered that her footsteps could be heard by Ignotus, and a new system of slow and heavy pacing was adopted. In the next year of paced conversations, Paul and Florence carried out one of history's unique courtships. Says she: "I never walked so much in my life...
...father's friend soon dropped out ("I think he was a little annoyed at having his serious conversations with Paul come to an end"), and the talks became steadily longer and "more frivolous." They talked about their favorite authors, especially Thomas Mann, their health, their childhood-intimacies trudgingly told. One day Paul idly asked Florence how she was dressed. She described her clothes, was playfully beginning a description of her underwear when Paul began stamping heavily on his cell floor. Thumped he: "I won't have my future wife discussing her underclothes in the presence of strangers." After...
...Free. One morning around Easter 1955, Florence tapped and got no answer from Paul. Later that year, for no given reason, she was released from prison. Months afterward she received a secretly relayed message from Paul. He had been taken to another prison and had no hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others...
...president of the Hungarian Writers Association, which sparked the Hungarian revolution last October, Paul Ignotus fought to free all of Hungary. Even when the Soviet army tanks moved in, Ignotus still thought something could be done, but when the Russians kidnaped Premier Nagy he knew the game was up. Paul and Florence walked all night through the marshy swamps and minefields to freedom across the Austrian border...