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...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...
When Budapesters first saw the bright, handsome new forints (introduced last August just as the pengo was inflated to 500,000,000,000,000,000 times its original value), they compared the coins with bald, homely Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, who was advertised as the father of the forint, and cracked: "It must have had a beautiful mother...
Nagy's chief co-delegate was Vice Premier Matyas Rakosi, a poised, sharp-tongued, veteran Communist who got his start as People's Commissar under Bela Kun's terror regime and spent years in Hungary's jails. In 1939, well aware of his importance to Hungary's future...
Communist Boss Rakosi knew that the solution of these problems depended on Moscow, rather than Washington and London. Whenever the discussion touched Hungary's relations with Russia, middle-of-the-roader Nagy skirted skillfully, Communist Rakosi smiled a bland, gold-toothed smile...