Word: rakosi
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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...
Political Football. Ferencvaros is the name of a middle-class district in Budapest, also the name of Hungary's oldest and best soccer club. The team's rooters are anti-Red. Two weeks ago Ferencvaros played the all-Communist Iron Workers, Rakosi's own club. Into the Ferencvaros stadium, on Ulloi Ut, crowded 25,000 fans. Rakosi's team fell behind. Inflamed Ferencvaros rooters began to shout: "Kill those Communist...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...
...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...