Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry! Re the payment of ransom for the release of our flyers [TIME, Dec. 31], let me quote: "Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute...
...voice came from the U.S. Ambassador and High Commissioner in Austria. Walter J. Donnelly had arrived from Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast...
...Above All Else." The U.S. had indeed remembered. In the two days before Washington announced that it would pay the ransom, a wave of private fund raising swept across the country. The American-Hungarian Federation got pledges of $345,000. Robert Vogeler, who had also known Hungarian captivity, reported pledges of $200,000. The American Legion and the American Highway Carriers...
...large seemed to share that sentiment. There were some loud dissents. Cried Texas' Senator Tom Connally: rather than cough up the ransom, the U.S. should "get tough," break diplomatic relations, apply an economic boycott. But few Americans were willing to sound off so bravely from the safety of home. The prevailing opinion: pay the ransom first, then crack down hard on the kidnapers...
...more world-wide scale, the United States disbursed $120,000 to free four American fliers held for ransom by the Hungarian government, and half the American people criticized the State Department for not being firmer and sending a gunboat or something like Teddy Roosevelt '80 would have done, while other influential quarters critized the State Department simply through force of habit. The negotiators for both sides in Korea thought up some new sets of conditions and called each other a few more variations of scroundel, while the fighting front sputtered sporadically. Andrei Vishinsky suggested the truce talks be moved...