Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Rakosi forgot about the promise but did not forget about Dinnyes' disloyal hankering for Bern...
...Toilers Are Told. Fortnight ago, Rakosi made a major speech before his Communist Party. Hungarian peasants cocked an ear; since the war they had divided up the large farms among themselves (with the blessings of the Communists) and were well pleased. Rakosi's speech jolted them. He deplored the fact that Hungarian agriculture today is "based on the split-up little peasant holdings." He even used the dreaded word "kolkhoz" -collective farm. The peasant press gingerly expressed anxiety...
...Rakosi's speech also jolted the industrial workers. Their standard of living had been rising. Rakosi pointed out that the coming five-year plan would require capital goods. Said he: ". . . we cannot continue with such a speedy rise in the standard of living...
...Surging Pain . . ." One boulder remained in the path of Rakosi's Communist steamroller. Cardinal Mindszenty was facing trial for subversive activity, but last week the Voice of America broadcast to Hungary his latest pastoral letter, which had been banned in Hungary by the Communists. It was subversive, indeed...