Word: szabadsag
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Magyars love to gamble. After Communist austerity shuttered Budapest's gambling joints, the boys in Szabadsag Ter (Liberty Square) offered outdoor odds of four to one against President Zoltan Til-dy's chances of surviving his precarious alliance with the Communists. Fourteen months ago, when he weathered the storm that whisked ex-Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile, 3,000,000 forints (about $250,000) in bets changed hands. The boys on Szabadsag Ter should have waited...
Arpad Szakasits was given the presidency of Hungary as his reward for keeping the Social Democratic Party on the same Red line down which Tildy had marched the Smallholders. A month ago Arpad obligingly merged his Social Democrats with the Communists into a new Hungarian Workers Party. Over on Szabadsag Ter, the bettors could open a new set of books...