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...minor mysteries, in all the disorder of Hungary's last days of freedom, was the killing of Milenko Milovnov, a Yugoslav embassy secretary, as he stood "looking out the window" of the Yugoslav embassy on Stalin Square. Last week the mystery was cleared up: he was shot, all right, but not while staring out a window...
...life. Being a Communist, and knowing that Communist vengeance extends to families, he gathered up ten other Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door safely, but Milovnov crumpled to the ground, dead...
Soviet Presidium Members Anastas Mikoyan and Mikhail Suslov were said to be in Budapest working out a "solution." One solution that now appeared possible was one that a week ago seemed utterly improbable: the return of deposed Premier Imre Nagy. From his hideout in the small greystone two-storied Yugoslav embassy in Stalin Square (where a Soviet tankist a week earlier had killed the embassy's First Secretary Milenko Milov-nov), the intransigent Nagy sent word that he would have no dealings with Kadar. But Budapest's workers insisted that he was the only man they would trust...
...clarify his position was an oblique rumor, reprinted with deliberate intent in Moscow's Pravda, that the "reactionary fascist uprising" in Hungary was all Tito's doing. To clear himself of this charge, Tito threw down the compromised Imre Nagy (who had found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime in Budapest because...
Leon Volkov, a former colonel in the Soviet air force, Marek St. Korowicz, former Polish delegate to the United Nations, Leslie Tater, Hungarian television writer, and Stoyan Gavritovitch, former Yugoslav undersecretary of state, will also be on the program...