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...mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction to Kun go unchecked. Virtual dictator of Hungary in the '20s and '30s, Horthy in 1940 made his country the Axis powers' first small-nation ally, in 1944 was deposed and brought to Germany by Hitler for seeking a separate peace, stayed in exile when Communist control of Hungary prevented his return...
...school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served some useful function if it impresses upon Massachusetts the need for reform in the virtual autonomy of local school committees...
...Victoria was still the sovereign when her grandchildren were growing up, and was still afraid of having them mix with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept in virtual isolation. It was not until they were 13 that Edward VIII and George VI were sent to the Royal Naval College at Osborne. There Edward Windsor got his first taste of what a boy's world is like when some senior-termers poured red ink over his head, once...
Reason No. 2 : there are only ten vacancies in the College. Since three red hats are virtual musts at the next consistory-to Archbishops Griffin of Westminster, Koenig of Vienna and Montini of Milan-there would be only seven vacancies to fill many demands for new cardinals. Thus it would be wiser to wait till more openings occur. "There are several cardinals of advanced age," as one prelate put it delicately, "and despite the most charitable hopes, they cannot last much longer...
...write than to teach journalists how to have ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms in agricultural policy (later adopted in large part by Party Secretary Gomulka) that include virtual liquidation of Russian-type collective farming in favor of new incentives for independent farmers...