Word: transdanubia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists worked hard to get a "popular mandate" for their "People's Front" government. They concentrated their biggest efforts in staunchly Catholic Transdanubia where prayers are still openly said for the health of jailed Cardinal Mindszenty. Paunchy (280 Ibs.) Father Istvan Balogh, suspended by his church and long in favor of collaboration with the government (TIME, Feb. 14), raced over back-country roads in his light blue Studebaker, campaigning among the peasants, who dread the Communists' plans for collectivization...
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