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...every aristocrat brought before him, even spared the family of his detested mother-in-law. Soon he was arrested for "moderantism," was saved from the guillotine only by the fact that Robespierre fell from power the day before his scheduled execution. In 1800 he was consigned to a criminal asylum, whose chief doctor observed: "This man isn't crazy. He's just delirious about vice." There he died...
...Swiss Ski Association formally asked the Soviet Winter Sports Federation to keep its members away from Swiss ski competitions. The presence of Russian athletes, explained the Swiss, might well provoke "unpleasant demonstrations" among the Swiss themselves, and among the 10,000 Hungarian refugees to whom Switzerland has offered asylum...
From the moment of their arrival in Australia, many of the athletes began inquiring about their chances of finding asylum in the West. It was not an easy decision to make. Few, if any, of the athletes were dedicated Communists, but an Olympic champion is an important man behind the Iron Curtain and is generally sure of a guaranteed income far beyond the average, and many special privileges. Defection would mean losing all of these sure advantages for a doubtful future in a strange country. And failure to return might mean reprisals against relatives...
...Russian intervention in Hungary and the arrest of former Yugoslav Vice President Milovan Djilas (TIME, Dec. 3) had convinced him that "the promised liberation and democratization in my country have reached a dead-end street." Levi, the only Red correspondent accredited to U.N. forces in Korea in 1951, asked asylum...
Inside the Camp. For 19 days, while the battle of Budapest raged about them, Nagy's party found asylum with the Yugoslavs. In these 19 days, while the Russians cruelly repressed but could not crush the Hungarian rebellion, another battle was going on throughout the Communist world: a frantic attempt to fasten the guilt for the Hungarian revolt. Tito got caught in the crossfire. Pravda accused him of being an accomplice of the "counterrevolutionary" Nagy, and hinted that Tito's talk of "many roads to' socialism" underlay all the trouble. Tito, in turn, indignantly blamed Hungary...