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...been a castrated servant of Communism ever since. Kadar, a onetime streetcar conductor, could have beaten it out of Hungary during the revolution, like thousands of lesser AVH victims; instead he reported to the Russian headquarters at Szolnok. The Russians (on Rakosi's advice, some reports say) promptly sent him back as Premier and Party Boss in place of the deposed Imre Nagy. They calculated that as an AVH martyr Kadar would command public sympathy and support, and being clay in their hands, his regime could be molded to any shape desired. The 60-odd days of Janos Kadar...
Debrecen, Dunapentele and Szolnok, no wheel turned. The coal mines were deserted. At Salgotarjan 80 people were killed when police fired into a crowd of 10,000 workers who demanded the release of their workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle...
...this was done in Szolnok, Hungary, last week to Frau Maria Kardos, first of the famed group of Hungarian female poisoners arrested 14 months ago (TIME, Dec. 9, 1929) to be executed. Frau Kardos was convicted of poisoning her 22-year-old son and her second husband, suspected of also poisoning her first husband...
Busybodies in neighboring villages soon spread rumors about the firm of Fazekas, Csordas & Co. The rumors crystallized. Letters containing definite particulars of numerous deaths in the village of Nagyrev were sent to local police offices, finally to the district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular uncle, buried twelve years, was exhumed, assayed, found to contain enough arsenic to kill a team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev...
...Szolnok, Hungary, terrified peasants besought the local mayor to avert continuance of the recent catastrophic rains throughout Europe (TIME, July 12) by ordering the removal of "all ill omened radio aerials." Scientists talked learnedly of sun spots. Rain fell...