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...immune by reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after 14 days in prison. In Soviet-occupied Hungary's only free election in 1945, the Smallholders Party...
...hapless victims of the crushing Nazi advance-50,000 Polish soldiers and civilians, fleeing the Nazis and Soviets, and later, some 2,200 French soldiers who escaped from Nazi prison camps after the Battle of France. All found a firm, resourceful friend in the pastor of Balatonboglar, a Father Bela Varga, whose Church of the Sacred Cross became the center of refugee relief. Many of the refugees got away to fight again. Others, especially imperiled Jews, got forged documents from Father Varga that enabled them to settle down in Hungary...
Last week the onetime pastor of Balatonboglar, himself a refugee from Soviet tyranny, found that free men can remember quiet heroes. At a brief ceremony in the Washington residence of French Ambassador Herve Alphand, tall, scarlet-caped Bela Varga, 57, made a papal prelate during his 13 years in exile, was decorated with France's Legion of Honor, in remembrance of the refugees he saved...
...Died. Bela Kovacs, 53, stubborn 20th century Hungary freedom fighter who battled the Nazis, then the Communists, always against hopeless odds, became the embodiment of democratic hope in Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw...
...Bela Bartok Jr. has turned up about 40 manuscripts left behind by Bartok in Budapest when he fled during World...