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Other notable new records: Debussy and Ravel Quartets, played by the Budapest String Quartet (Columbia); Deep River and other songs, sung by William Warfield (Columbia); Smetana's symphonic cycle, My Fatherland, played by the Chicago Symphony conducted by Rafael Kubelik (Mercury, 2 LPs); Twelve Spanish Dances by Granados, played by Pianist José Echániz (Westminster...
...totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal stooges, including the hated.Public Prosecutor J. Domokos. With the new Soviet, peace offensive in full swing, the period of show trials seems to be over-at least for the time being...
Last week one of the first contingents of correspondents to go behind the Iron Curtain in three years returned from a five-day visit to Hungary, where they covered the Communist Peace Council. In Budapest, the eight correspondents were offered cars and English-speaking secretaries and allowed to file or phone out their stories without censorship. Some ducked out of the tours, tried to dodge security police who trailed them, but even when they succeeded were wary of talking to Hungarians, who would suffer reprisals from the police if they were caught speaking to Westerners. New York Times Correspondent...
...Tito's Yugoslavia, 9,000 people queued up in front of the U.S. Information Service building for translations. Budapest's USIS office reported handing out translations at the rate of 50 an hour...
...emergency ingathering of the clan. From East Berlin, his neatly barbered, Lenin-type goatee nuzzling a huge brown overcoat collar, flew Walter Ulbricht, who likes to be called "the little Lenin," wears the title of Deputy Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious...