Word: rakosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary, the country's Communist boss, Matyas Rakosi, last week crowed that the Government had been seized "before the U.S. could rub its eyes." Another Communist leader, Zoltan Vas, Hungary's economic dictator, said: "I cannot deny that we have a large number of Hungarian Nazis in our party. But I would rather have them than businessmen or capitalists." Behind closed doors and drawn blinds, Budapesters heard foreign broadcasts telling of President Truman's protest (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that the Soviet maneuver in Hungary was "an outrage...
Rumania was quiet and safe for the Communists. Its Premier, white-haired Petru Groza, recently visited Budapest to renew acquaintances of student days. At a dinner attended by Rakosi, where wine flowed freely and violins played haunting gypsy music, Groza explained Eastern Europe in personal, precise terms. From a member of the intimate group of pro-Communist "boys in the back room," TIME heard this memorable quote from Groza...
...phone rang. It was Matyas Rakosi, calling from Budapest. Rakosi was not a man whose voice made acquaintances homesick. Bullet-headed, shark-mouthed Rakosi, boss of Hungary's Communists, had a message for his nominal superior in the Government, Nagy...
...will meet you at the frontier," rasped Rakosi. "You must place yourself at the disposal of the authorities to answer the people's court. Tell me at once where and when you will enter the country, lest anything should happen to you when you cross the frontier...
This last act of the bitter farce of Hungarian postwar democracy had been predicted by Rakosi. When, in the free elections of January 1946, Nagy's Smallholders' Party had got 59% of the votes against only 17% for the Communists, Rakosi had growled: "The story has just begun . . . watch what happens later...