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Rakosi is the real No. 1 man in Hungary, even though he is only Deputy Vice Premier. The front man until last week was Premier Lajos Dinnyes (rhymes with in mesh). Rakosi replaced him with Puppet Istvan Dobi (rhymes with Gobi). Both are members of what is left of the Smallholders Party; both dirked their party by working for the Communists...
Actually, Dinnyes had toyed with the same idea. Even as Premier, Puppet Dinnyes had been unable to get his sister, Etelka Gunde, an exit visa. So Etelka, with her husband and two sons, got across the border through the forests. In Austria she was free to tell about her brother. Rakosi had promised him the ambassadorship at Bern if he would denounce Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary. Dinnyes, envisioning Bern and freedom from Rakosi's secret police, called Mindszenty "the center of the counterrevolutionary forces in Hungary...
...novel. Field Marshal Von Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army, joined the so-called Free Germany Committee shortly after his capture. This group was made up of German ex-officers in Russian captivity, who became opposed to Nazism and were carefully trained to form a pro-Russian puppet administration in Germany. Today Von Paulus is said to be commanding an army of pro-Communist German veterans--a ghost army somewhere in eastern Europe, ready to pounce when the time comes. Theodor Plievier himself came to Germany in the wake of the Russians, and the publication of "Stalingrad" was encouraged...
...most realistic view of the Burmese situation was expressed by former Japanese Puppet Premier Ba Maw (Ph.D., Cambridge). Said he, in his best Cambridge drawl: "Just because America and Britain make their spiritual home in the middle of the road is no reason to expect Burma to stay there. The Japanese spirit completely conquered these people. It's the man with the gun who will win out here...
...time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...