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From behind the Iron Curtain last week came fragmentary but reliable news of how the subject peoples of Eastern Europe reacted to Stalin's death. In the big cities of Rumania, Hungary and Poland, many celebrated the event by covertly hoisting a few drinks. In Budapest the Reds herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among...
...Budapest came a bizarre proposal from the Communists. They wanted to exchange a British "spy" imprisoned in Hungary for a woman guerrilla leader facing the gallows in Malaya. Rarely has Russian diplomacy so blatantly acknowledged its real control over Communists everywhere. The barter proposal showed how fast, when the Reds want to make a deal, they cynically drop the pretense of a rebel band of local "patriots'" fighting "colonialism" in Malaya, or of a "People's Republic" having a genuine claim to sovereignty in Hungary. The principals in this cold war barter...
Edgar Sanders, 48, tall, bespectacled Briton who was a representative of International Telephone & Telegraph in Budapest, was tried with Robert Vogeler of the U.S. in the strange Budapest "spy case" of 1950, has since served three years of a 13-year prison sentence. The U.S. ransomed Vogeler in 1951, the British had nothing satisfactory to offer for Sanders...
Honor Bound. In Budapest, Communist Hungarian officials, charged with stepping up the birth rate, posted notices around the city: TO GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN IS A DUTY FOR MARRIED WOMEN AND AN HONOR FOR UNMARRIED GIRLS...
...intelligence men at Iron Curtain listening posts came telltale signs that the Kremlin's and-Jewish purge has descended on Communist Hungary, a country long notorious for its antiSemitism. Budapest made no strident announcement such as that which doomed Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky et al. But from the tales of refugees and monitored Red radio broadcasts, Western agents concluded that a Russian purge tribunal has gone to Hungary to root out "suspected Zionists" from the strongly Jewish (90% in the top echelons) government of Communist Premier Matyas Rakosi, who is himself...