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Last week, an unexpected champion arose for the millions who cannot tell Chicken Marengo* from Escalope de Foie Gras Talleyrand† from Surprise Omelet Milord- from apple pie a la mode.†† The champion was a writer for Budapest's Communist daily Vilagossag, who (he related in his column) recently walked into a "people's restaurant" and promptly had his appetite ruined by an item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol...
...principal defendants, however, were different. For the first time Budapest's Red regime was trying its tactics on Anglo-American businessmen, and their alleged Hungarian associates...
Among them stood an American, handsome Robert Vogeler, 38, a graduate of Annapolis and M.I.T. He had come to Hungary in 1948 as U.S. representative of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Friends in Budapest and back home knew him as a skilled sportsman (fencer, marksman, skier, golfer) and a gay companion. One day last November...
...Vogeler had stepped from Budapest's Hotel Astoria and into his black Buick sedan, intending to drive to Vienna to see his pretty, blonde wife Lucile and their two children. He never made it. Secret police hauled him off as a spy. For three months, Vogeler lay in a Budapest jail, denied counsel or bail, while the U.S. ineffectually protested...
...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...