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...minister to exiled Hungarians wherever they may be, Monsignor Zagon bears the title, Apostolic Visitor Extraordinary. The title reflects the worldwide dispersal of his flock: 100,000 of them in Free Europe, another 100,000 scattered in North and South America and Australia. One of Zagon's jobs is to provide them with Hungarian-speaking priests, from a pool of more than 250 who are under his administrative direction. He also has general responsibility for 125 Hungarian seminarians, now continuing their theological studies at various European schools-men who can carry on the old tradition...
...English language offers no warmer word of greetings to a visitor than "Welcome," yet it seems inadequate as an expression of the warmth of hearth with which Boston and all New England await the arrival...
...introducing his visitor, Lieut. General Ned Almond only said what he thought a lot of people believed. "Governor Dewey has been a candidate for the Presidency and, for all we know out here, he may be a candidate again next year," the general said as he presented Governor Dewey to his X Corps staff officers in Korea. Thereupon, Tom Dewey rose and said it more flatly than he had ever said it at home: "I am not a candidate and will definitely oppose any attempt to make me a candidate next year...I have no plans to ever...
...state dinner (trout, squab and four kinds of wine) attended by some 50 top Washingtonians at the Hotel Carlton. Next evening, Dean Acheson gave another black-tie banquet for Galo Plaza; the guests included a lot of the faces the Ecuadorian had seen the night before. Afterward, the visitor, who had no work to do, bade good night to protocol, flashed off to a gay affair given by Cuba's peppery Ambassador Luis Machado, danced and drank champagne till 3 a,m. Asked later who was there, Machado said: "Just our favorite people-and the prettiest girls in Washington...
Even those Washingtonians who endure, rather than enjoy protocol, agreed that it couldn't have been laid on for a nicer guy than for handsome Galo Plaza, who himself loathes protocol. Senators and Representatives cottoned to a visitor who could talk their language the way they liked to hear it; they applauded him 17 times during his ably delivered, 20-minute address before a joint session. During his stay in the capital, Plaza also saw a baseball game between Washington and Detroit (Washington won 6-3), visited Mount Vernon...