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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their sponsor was a blue-eyed New Jersey manufacturer named Victor Bator, who had been chased out of Hungary in 1940 by the Nazis, and had built up a prosperous electrical insulating business. Along with Louis Szanto, Virginia tobacco grower, and John F. Montgomery, prewar U.S. minister to Hungary, Bator put up about $100,000 to buy Népszava (circ. 23,000) from its Polish-American owners. The new owners will fight Communism at home & abroad, plug ECA and try to keep alive the idea of a free Danubian federation. They hope to double circulation among Hungarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editors in Exile | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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