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...first was to Vienna, to the ruins of the millennial empire whose prewar life he had affectionately reported, and to Soviet Budapest, where Béla Kun reigned and the Red Terror was on. ("I shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people...
Democrats are in demand in Budapest. Choleric, dictatorial Regent Nicholas Horthy and his landed-gentry friends need a new act, are ready to try "the People's Will" if it can get them out of the war without penalty. Except for the brief moment of Count Michael Károlyi's Republic at the end of World War I, Hungary has never seriously tried democracy and the first moves were awkward...
...chance was long gone. Allied with Italy since 1927, the recipient of Hitler's favors since 1938, one of a small handful of governments to recognize Mussolini's bogus Fascist Republic last September, the men of Budapest had guessed wrong too often. From Moscow came clear hints that even Rumania might fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German...
Little Men Who Weren't There. None of the Budapest Quartet comes from Budapest. Only one of the four (first violinist Josef Roismann) has ever even visited the city. All are Russians. To the Quartet, this fact has become a continual embarrassment. Wherever they go, they are likely to be welcomed in fluent Magyar by effusive groups of Hungarians. The Quartet knows plenty of Hungarian music, but no Magyar...
...original Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...