POWER AGAIN FOR HUNGARY'S TOUGH RAKOSI
By NICOLAS PRICE
OMMUNIST
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Vienna, was the son of a Jewish poultry But to young Matyas strong merchant.
there did not seem to be much man Matyas Rakosi is future in that There, seemed. going places again. All
more In red-blooded Com- along he has been going munism. places, choosing the tough
As a student he led the active
road. Now he is tipped to career of a young Red Captured be next Premier of Iron by the Russians in World War I Curtain Hungary, replacing he preached
the Marxist line among prisoners, and later met
disgraced Imre Nagy, whose Lenin, leader of the historic major sin-like Malenkov's, October Revolution.
was to be a little soft." hearted with the West.
·
In 1918 he started stirring up trouble in Hungary, and after.
served as commissar In the
A nail-hard man: this short-lived Bela Kun govern- Rakosi intolerant, severe, a ment. He was the youngest of toughened Communist who the commissars, aged 27,
has gone to gaol more than
once defending his beliefs.
On The Run
A brainy man, with a cunning, planning mind inside that bullet
When the head, Almost as long as he has, Rakost went been able to think, he has footing it to thought Communism.
grabbed him gaol sentence.
This premier's job will be nothing new, He was a big boss in the early postwar days, one of the men who made Hun- gary Communist. But he went out with the rise of Malenkov, when the fashion was to have men a little less tough; men who believed in some kind of co- existence and tolerance towards "the 'West.
Active Career
And he went out accused doing just those things which the softer Premier Nagy did not do. Rakost was accused of concentrating too much on heavy industry; Nagy is blamed for failing to gear factories into high enough heavy industry pro- duction. Which means, guns for Russia's armies.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1955.
government fell on the run, hot- Austria., But they for a ten-month
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Now that the unruly clemegi has heen expelled, perhaps we can get on with our lessons.”
In 1924 he was back again, became secretary of the execu- tive committee
the Com- of munist Third International, and helped to reorganise the illegal Communist Party in Hungary.
For that the government nabbed him again, and a special tribunal this time sentenced him to death. But a world outery against the harsh sentence saved him, and an ordinary tribunal chopped the sentence to 10 years gaol.
In 1935, when the ten years were up, Rakosi was not re leased He was pushed around from prison to prison until 1940. It was the same kind 0: Rakos! that came out of gaol into Hungary's streets, a free man But still, he thought it better to get out of the country. Go somewhere where they would This is the Matyas Rakosi true not hunt him... To Russia. life story:
The Arst things Rakosi started ordering around were fowls. He
Headaches
Toothaches Colds
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arn quickly overcome by
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to
run a
By 1944, when Rakosi's stern ideas about how country, had more favour in Hungary, he went back as general secretary of the Com- munist Party.
Next year he was deputy pre- mier. And it was through Rakosi's efforts--more than any-
else's-that one
Communism
Fot
London Express Service
RENE MacCOLL calls in at New York and finds
THERE'S
A SMILE
AMID THE HUSTLE
N
EW YORK
The tion, had a poorish reputation enough school buildings to cope
with the flood of children. hore it changes, the for manners in the past. more it's the same.
When the French dreamed up that one they must have had | New York well in mind, On the afternoon I got into town from the Caribbean 100,000 people were jammed iny the streets and on the rooftops of Harlem to watch the cops kill a barricaded-in robber. Authen- tic nostalgia stuff of the 1920's.
And then I go along to have gained its strong grip in early mid-town streets and I can't a look at one of my favourite
recognise it. The wreckers have been there..
postwar Hungary.
By 1948 Rakost was premler, and on the death of the Russian, Zhdanov, became head of the Rakosi
Cominform Matyas had reached the top.
Never Sure
Rakosi who was the It was prime mover behind the arrest and trial of Cardinal Mindzenty on treason charges. It was Rakosi who helped to fake up accusations against the American Robert Vogeler, vice-president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Rakosi had seen the inside of a priser. cell often enough him- self, and he was getting his own back.
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Vast parking lots spread their gleaming cavities where the familier buildings slood just the other day. And in eighth- wonder-of-the-world Rackefeller Contre they are busy demolish ing a theatre that was put up 29 an integral part of the Centre only 20 years back.
The theatre wasn't paying its way, so it'll be a great new back of air-conditioned offices from now on. Build and bash
the motto of New York,
And while they ate killing 'desperadoes up there in Harlem, down here on Wall Street pretty well everyone I come acrosa
That I think, is changing. The snarl is giving way to the smile. And even the cab- drivers, who in the old days were apt to cause unfavorable comparisons to be drawn be-
and orang- tween themselves cutangs with ulcers strike me this time around as being on the whole 4 pleasant enough. body of men.
me the whole
One, during a brief ride, guve They are talkative, of course,
history of how he'd been "funked (failed) for the U.S. Air Force on account of colour blindness.
Latest estimates--lable to be the month after out of date next are that the nation is shy of 300,000 classrooms.
What to do? Just now, while in Washinglen Mr Eisenhower and his Cabinet toss around huge new education estimates, the schoolmasters are forced to all sorts of stratagems."
In most of the schools they work the two-shift system, as stories instead of schools. The though they were dealing with girls and boys either attend school in the morning (getting much earlier than formerly to do so) or in the afternoon. But not both.
Reading my thoughts. he Talking of
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Anyway, I rushed them around Russia
about quarter of an hour, then gave them a brisk peek at Peking. Then, ps the dying goes; I thatów. myself open to questions. That was when I wished that I had kept on talking.
THE CHANGE SINCE YALTA
By Vaughan Jones
London
DISCLOSURES of words spoken in
secret by the world's leaders, meet. ing to settle the fate of nations, are often fascinating, but Britons can find no good reason at all for revealing the American version of the Yalta conference.
As Britons see it, these revelations can only comfort the Communists.
The American version can only help arrish the memory of Roosevelt, whose noble statue in London's Grosvenor Squ
Anglo-American friendship has symbolised
It can only portray America's wartime statesmen as ready to do a secret deal with Stalin to deprive Britain of her colonial inter- ests. And Britain's leaders as cynics, critical. of the value of their Polish and French allies.
However, there emerged two things:
The one is the danger of publishing or misinterpreting remarks taken from their general context. This might limit free discus- sion in future, and the allegations could be refuted,
Sir Winston did in the House
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The other is the extent by which American official opinion has, swung to that of Britain, a country mature and experienced in political dealing.
In the war days Americans benevolently called the Soviet dictator "Uncle Joe." They desired apparently, to convert Britain's colonies into trustee ships, give Hongkong to China and
exclude Britain from Korea's administration.
American tanks did in fact, salt to allow the Red Army to occupy Prague, ripe for a
the
new order and democratic, rule
after the Nazi occu
occupation.
Since then, America's, politi cians have matured. They were the prime movers in buliding up a steel defence wall against Uncle Joe, his successors and
friends. With technical and financial
they helped
Bid
develop Britain's overseas terri tories They took up position in East, throwing a pro-
the
Far
mantle around Formosa
LOVE that Hongkong was..
in strong British hands, and British soldiers alongside their own in Korea..
Significantly, they have over- taken and passed the British in the extremity of some of their views on international affairs.
Londoners, as they walk past Roosevelt's statue, will forget celebrity they lay in wait, but the assertions of Yalta double A spectacled youth 1ose, and on the way down here to the massive momentum of America's invariably it slipped my mind. dealing They will remember the with great carnestness asked me airport, where I am finishing war effort, and the aid she gave to "redefine Sir Anthony Eden's these notes; my taxi' man, one to set the shattered world to policy concerning the off-share of the new-medci, courteous, rights again. islands of Matsu and Quemoy in kind, said over his shoulde relation to the latest develop "Hey, Mac, yah been keeping ments in the Formosa Strait.” pretty good company back there
at de hotel, yahi know that?"
'We' took it from
there.
in
.
I intimated that while I had indeed delt that some notable Presence was by way of being a fellow-inmate, I had omitted to identify it.
Princess Margaret's Laste music; the attitude of the British public to the Thron, why Mr Attlee says the things he does: Mr Bevan says the things why schocichlidren, he does: My Greatest Moment added: "I can tell the red lights MacColl, in what
must have. Ever In Jaumlism; when will from the green and that's about been one of his more foolhardy Britain hold her next General
moments. found himself the Election; does Sir Winston him
when he means to other day marching into a high selt know
"Yah mean yah don't know school to address the "Social actire...that sort of thing.
who
dere?" Studies Class of the 12th Grade
staying Later, talking to some of these manifestly amazed "Yah mean
exclaimed (roughly the equivalent of our
my chauffeur, now own sixth forms) attended by 17 eager.
lively young people, to sit dere and tell me yah don't noticed that they used on know yth and 18-year-olds.
was under de came trusing phrase. When they root wit Marilyn Monroe? Oh, wanted to describe someone as boy!! slow in the uptake they referred to him or her as strictly out to
Here in New York-just as everywhere across this great big, bustling nation the schools are causing everyone a beadache, from Governor Averell Harriman down.
The schoolmaster turned his class "right over to Mr Mac- Coll"; and there I stood on the dais, contemplating the 50- lunch" 'strong
bind of girls in blus The huge baby boom" of the jeans and checked shirts, and Back at my New York hotel seems to be making killings of ing to hit Uncle Sam right snack and faintly cowboyesque trouser-gup of bobby-soxers hanging war and postwar years is start the boys in tartan windbreakers there seemed to be a permanent a more pleasant sart. But in a Communist country
in the middle of his official ings.
about near the entrance, what And here in Man- you are never really 'sure uf
ever the weather, It's got to the point where statistics.
-autograph- yourself. Not ever the great
everywhere else
Ahead lay an hour of torment, books at the ready. I kept. ough Rakosi was safe. So in 1953. your bus driver is all worried battan, as
not anything like What had I done to deserve this? meaning to Esk LET which six weeks after he had been over whether he ought to take there are.
SOAPY WATER turned to power in the glee-a capital gains tax beating by tions, he resigned. Malenkov selling his swollen holdings now
IS GOOD FOR PLANTS:
USE BATH SURPLUS IN THE GARDEN.
WATER IS PRECIOUS
was chief-of-staff then, and Imre Nagy, who had less harsh ideas about living in the same world
with anti-Communists, took over.
But Rakosi remained first secretary of the Communist
And
or not...
Tung, was when" Americans were for ever begging one as.. other to "Take it easy, now.” Today they are urging their 20- quaintances to "Live it up.. 3 little, why da'cher?! (Le, have he has always good time while you can). been there, waiting....Life had
And the way those Wall Street been too tough for him to back
values keep on. Everesting, it's out quietly and completely.
quite possible to live it up more than a te,
Party,
By arrangement with
Strok, Tillett & Holt, Ltd.
HARRY ODELL
proudly presents
LARRY ADLER
MANCHESTER
GUARDIAN,
speaking
of "LARRY,
says'
It would be
hard to prove
that anybody
Harmonicist
at the
Trument in
the
world of
music to-day [play's
>with
was
Tco.true,"alas. Four nights "under de same rtof' and never Д word exchanged between Monroe and MacColl! Could when your devoted reporter was this 'be one of those occasions strictly cut to lunch?
In future I must really strive to live it up a little.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
IT'S ALMOST CERTAIN IKE
GovernmentTM
LONGER IN
men
'must' grow too."
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*All right, all right-I know what you're going to say: "Don't bother to open it, there's just an H-bomb
inside.
WILL STAY
THE WHITE HOUSE
...
we can hang on to the Houst 'Mamie Pink”
and the Senate,"
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Winston Churchill pays another visit to the US, the President will put the Prime Minister up at Ted's Place.****
Washington, Tuesday.trict of Columbia talk blithely over the head and drag him tion is as indispensable as any stairs living-room, T was 73 degrees in of the United States having a unconscious into the conven mortal can be. They want him, eitling-room a fine modera
the
population of 200,000,000 within ten hall in order to. And a they need him they won't let kitchen, New York, where the already
shade and the.
a few years (the present popu- candidate, to run against Presi- him.
a dining-room, mammoth martinis keep on capital was flooded lation is 164,000,000) and say: dent Elsenhower in 1958,"
laundry, a study for Mr Eisen- growing and getting drier yet...with sunshine when I ar- "Washington, as the capital,
And no one
wants to rup hower and an office for his against *Ike, not everi A top Democrat, who swore scholarly
the secretary, and a studio where Where the lifts in the Waldarrived in Washington.
witty Adial the President can paint. It has Towers (the private suites at-
to me Stevenson. So a spirited tearing apart he would never speak steno and building up are going again if I published his name, Perhaps
been equipped with a lavish tached to the famous hotel,
the President air conditioning system. housing such occupants as the graphers were having pic on. Since I was last in Wash told me:
realises that he is desized to Windsors and General Douglas nic lunches. in Lafayette ington four months Ago new
The President is guarding servé another term in the White "We may as well be quite playing any MacArthur) are sprayed thrice Park and on the banks of bugs have shut upon trazi-we can't lick Eisen-us, and, that is why he is the house jealously and says:
tenements and old brownstone daily with a special scent ("It's the Potomac,
getting as rich out of his "There will be no Press. JOLIE hower unless he makes - SOITID and houses have been demolished,
dream a secret blend of many types, women
house; the farm in of the premises ever." drove along and dazzling new offices and colossal blunder, which is very
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as It is probable that if Sir rare flowery and such, the girl Pennsylvania Avenna with shops have sprouted.
unlikely. Ike will probably give lift operator gravely explains) the tops of their conver
us a worse beating than last
possible. time, and our only hope is that Where there's a big inystery tibles down, and President over the "apping of scores of Eisenhower was more than
private
phones chosen ap-golf shots on the White THE great hotels are having
as practising
Two big shows are going on Mr. Adler's Parently haphazard.
House lawn.
their faces litted, and the one expects Eisenhower from Washington. It hasn't in Washington the Senate ta ̃n d 1" And where the "gourig execu- The city so often accused of I am staying in is undergoing to run again. Every day he is got a name yet, and is known investigation of the Stock
fives". (the rising business men being neurot, looked solid and major surgery.
under pressure to do so. He as "Tea Place. After 39 years Market, and the hearings virtuosity,
who are making their mark or robust. It is apparently not
is being 1t
tok that it is his duty, of mariage Dwight and Mamie Government security reguli hoping to wear a uniform shaken by hydrogen bomb spring fever but the capital than the country and the world: Elsenbower have at last got a tions. consisting of charcoal grey Churchill's speech is still being ndence. This feeling of self- At his last Press conferenes The President, says "This is aborrin cast and advance
though
Winston appears in me to epitomice.com need him.
home of their, own...
The Stock Market probe is rather a the attached collar buttalled about,
whole assurance and well-being, cler Eisenhower, who beautifully the only plece tonext down, and ribbon-thin the phrases appropriated by Sea from the President himself.
America: ballyhoo, The Senators," the tors and Congresonen.
relaxed and bake very fit, and I own and I want to hang on Stock Market officials, and the Dwight Eisenhower : is. com- here is one rool
ge,The US, Information Ancylerely to charged pparently doesn't mind
to the and 2 big &.
company presidents have cis- New Yorkers has distributed the specci, all Charles Campbell, of the and lights at all, said: "
theclclarandewerbel-cameras | today strikke me as far politer over the world. In the National British Embassy tells me "Insadon will be in a bad way if it being supervised by Mes Eiren
Stock than they used to be:
Press Club the correspondents someways President Eisen- Bay: "If only Churchill, were honte mare doing ever adopts the indispensable hower/and one has been lavan Markut facts and figures This City in a headlong busy, good for another terr year2" Franklin RoosevELLENE FRA But the Republicans are
man theory!
with her favourited Murale The other show has exposed with its belt-you-over the hedd A great expansion programme The columnist Stewart Also pretty periam that Elsenhower The house has eight
Pinke
a ayamber of Government," "In- climate (never moderate), with is taking place in Washington, says:
forinery, und, particul The Democrats are
bed vey Matusow its wildly mixed 3,000,000 popsitam | The Commissioners of the Dis going to have to hit somebody in next year's Presidential elec rooms, seven batta, a down- nesses, frauds, and lars,
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