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...west Berlin, an increase program for 100,000 attractive, low-cost dwelling unties already well under war, while all the East offers is Stalin Alee, a mile or so of sterile masses of leaky buildings. Party faithfuls live here. The few with money patronize the exorbitant restaurants--"Warscham" and "Budapest." Houses of Culture, statue of Stalin, and a network of loudspeakers round out the scene...
...world might learn some of the answers to a perplexing intrigue of the cold war: the case of the American ex-diplomat Noel Field, and his wife Herta. When the Hungarian government suddenly freed them after five years in prison on trumped-up spy charges, U.S. diplomatic officials in Budapest saw them briefly. It was possibly the last meeting Noel and Herta Field would ever have with their countrymen. Over Budapest radio last week came the announcement that Noel and Herta Field had asked for and had been granted "political asylum" in Communist Hungary...
...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...
...Habits. It had proved too hard for Communists to forgo their old habits and run the country with a light touch. Once they eased up on the compulsion, 51% of the collective farm members walked out, worsening the food situation. With penalties on workers abolished, output dropped. Said Budapest Red Chief Istvan Kovacs: "We are producing less, worse and dearer, and at the same time we want to live better." The Reds lopped off 200,000 civil servants from the top-heavy bureaucracy, but Hungary's industry, its initiative sapped by years of being told what...
...Front. Last week, aware of their own party's unpopularity in the country, the worried Reds set up a super-Popular Front, the "People's Patriotic Front," and summoned 2,000 leading Hungarians, regardless of party, to Budapest for a two-day meeting. The meeting convened in a hall filled not with Red flags but with the red, white and green Hungarian national flag, and led off not with the singing of the Internationale but with the igth century anthem which begins, "God bless the Hungarian people...