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These words of Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, written in 1950, were first published a year ago in Budapest when, for a moment, there was freedom. Last week on the first anniversary of the day the nation rose in revolt, Hungarians could demonstrate only by sullen silence...
...world glimpse its version of justice. In the course of secretly trying some 5,000 "criminals" (at least 113 of whom have been sentenced to death), Kadar decided to hold an open trial of eleven young Freedom Fighters. For his winning examples he chose Medical Student Ilona Toth, Editor Gyula Obersovszky, Playwright Jozsef Gali and eight others including an army lieutenant, charged them with having murdered an AVH man who had discovered that they were putting out a mimeographed revolutionary sheet called We Live! (TIME, April...
...Devil's General (Gyula Trebitsch; Stebbins). "In a pinch," says the German proverb, "the devil eats flies." But how did he ever manage, in the puny form of Adolf Hitler, to gobble up all those meaty burghers of the German middle class? How could so many "good Germans" have been so bad? This picture, based on a play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer and magnificently directed by Helmut Käutner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months...
...young woman told how, early in the fight, she had knocked out a Soviet tank with a hand grenade. At Domonkos hospital she and her ten codefendants, none of them over 30, had used the hospital Mimeograph machine to crank out a revolutionary newspaper called Truth. The editors were Gyula Obersovszky, onetime cultural editor of a provincial newspaper who had been expelled from the party for organizing a satirical cabaret show, and Jozsef Gali, ailing survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who had fallen into disgrace with the Communists after his play Freedom Hill had become...
...with their backs to each other in protective circles, each tank able to fire down a different street. Batteries of heavy Soviet artillery were set up on Gellert Hill, and H.E. shells were poured into buildings where resistance was spotted. But the rebels were not without resource. Said Gyula Petoki, who escaped: "During World War II the Germans had made doors in cellars between houses so that people could move around during air raids. When the war ended the doors were bricked up. But we remembered them and ripped them open again so that we could go from house...