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Robert Hankey, 46, now Minister in Budapest and once Anthony Eden's assistant private secretary. This week, Iran refused to accept...
...eyes of the U.S. focused last week on a frontier gate where the road from Red Hungary leads into Austria. In the chill, gathering dusk, a convoy of three black cars, their windows heavily curtained, pulled up on the road from Budapest. Four U.S. airmen, hemmed in by Red guards, stepped down from the autos. They were unshaved and shaggy-haired, tense and stiffly suspicious; their uniforms were rumpled and dirty. Then, out of the darkness, an American voice boomed at them: "Welcome to freedom...
...voice came from the U.S. Ambassador and High Commissioner in Austria. Walter J. Donnelly had arrived from Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast...
Then the Hungarians added their final gesture. Even before the U.S. could wind up to fire another note of protest, a military court in Budapest this week handed down its decision: the four airmen had been tried, found guilty, fined $30,000 each or three months in jail. Hungary's ransom ring, which had made a lucrative haul in goods for the release of Businessman Robert Vogeler, was down to a simpler racket-a barefaced pursuit of hard cash...
Bourgeois Weakness. In Budapest, Hungary, after two factory nursery-school directors tried to buy chamber pots at a government store and were told that only unsuitable Japanese flower vases would be available until next year, the trade-union paper Nepszava angrily commented: "The small children of the nursery are in no position at all to wait until January for the pots...