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Professor Varga was People's Commissar of Finance in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian Soviet collapsed. Unlike Bela Kun, who was liquidated in Russia's Great Purge, he prospered and became economic adviser to the Russian Communist Party's Political Bureau. Hence his article is an important clue to what Russia's leading political theorists and practical politicians think about world affairs...
Nagy's chief co-delegate was Vice Premier Matyas Rakosi, a poised, sharp-tongued, veteran Communist who got his start as People's Commissar under Bela Kun's terror regime and spent years in Hungary's jails. In 1939, well aware of his importance to Hungary's future...
...protest! . . . You do [Bela Bartok] a great injustice by saying that "his music got played, if at all, before esoteric little groups of modernist composers and musicians who had built up a tolerance to what the uninitiated regarded as barnyard music" [TIME, March...
...TIME sees no injustice in its report that the widespread recognition of Bela Bartok's work was belated. As for famed Violinist Szigeti, how about confetti...
When he died of leukemia in Manhattan last September at 64, Bela Bartók's final hospital bills and burial expenses were paid by the big-money boys of composing, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Irving Berlin, Deems Taylor, etc.). He had never belonged...