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Arpad made good behind

the Iron

THE god that betrayed Arpad the Hungarian was a god of terror

and oppression,

Curtain

made good, to support his par- ents, his brother and his sister, who worked on the farm.

He

By FRIED MANOR

Arpad was well off. received a salary of 1,000 "When I

uni- a good florint monthly, left my Hungarian political police, During recent refresher form, and he ate in a cheop country," Arpad told me, "I and his name spelt terror courses he was also taught mess. Of course, he could not felt as if a heavy stone was to the 14,000 workers slav- how to defend himself compare his salary with that of lifted from my mind."

ing in the steel mill where against automatic weapons. the Russian officers in his mill he commanded a security He cut an impressive figure monthly, taken out of the detachment.

who receive 7,000 florint

in his smart uniform, a new pockets of the Hungarian tax- Russian-made pistol stuck payer.

He was sitting across the table, dressed in a smart gold leather jerkin with a

At the age of 24 Arpad in his holster. fountain pen sticking out of was tasting the delights of

his pocket, the last two power, and case. He was a The workers looked at relics of his recent glory. graduate of the political him with mute

fear per- academy of Budapest where vaded with deep hatred.

was not a mere number in ing the desolate refugees' camp taught in Trieste. He was then sabotage and how to handle Lieutenant Arpad of the revolutions or deviations,

Hunger Wages

But he was socially towering over the mass of workers, who A few months ago Arpad Russian instructors lectur- But they were below his under the Communist regime through interpreters notice. He even looked with toll eight hours a day six days

him all

about contempt at Marton, the a week for 500 forint monthly. manager of the mill, who Most workers subsisted on had once worked there as these hunger wages, paying

and 200 florint rent for an unskilled worker

a single whose only qualification for room, eight florint for a pound of fat, seven florint for a his present position was his pound of pork, when avall-

membership able, long-standing

and four florint for a in the Communist Party. pound of beef.

A

The man who found himself

by BILLY ROSE

canvases

I

Wild Parties

Clerical employees were Arpad knew that one day hardly better off with a wage when the Russians had lost of 650 forint. They were all their patience he would have dressed in bad utility clothes 10 arrcat the manager on made of Russian cotton, which charges of wilful sabotage, shrunk after the first rain and although well aware that Mar- did not protect them from cold. ton's only crime was ignorance. Even these poor suits cost 300 forint, two-thirds of the work- ers monthly wages. A wool- leny suit or overcoat for which they would have to work for two and a half months Meanwhile Arpad would at far beyond their reach, Street tend the wild vodka parties of

the Russian officers, who were The situation was not any

by the

Hungarian Go- better in the Hungarian army vernment four times as much o: police. Both services, got:

the mill's top Hungarian plenty of Marxist indoctrina- technicians. There

were on and good-quality Soviet A new weapons, but officers and non- chances of promotion.

was opened coms, unless they belonged to ord under Russian supervision in

in the political branch, received

FRIEND of mine who Art Students' League, sketched lives in Greenwich Vil- for several summers, and after completing over д hundred lage awears he heard a

was fortunate moocher deliver the follow- enough to get myself a one-

at a 57th ing spiel to a lady on West man show 8th Street:

"You ask Madum how a man with a Harvard accent got to be tramp.

g

Well,

gallery.

you've given me a civil dime "It was the same old story: and that entitles you to a civil the art critics went out of their answer: the fact of the matter way to be kind, but once again

paid

ан

ordnance factory

WBA

the nearby town of Diosgyor the same miserable salary as

is that I speak with a Harvard 1 was Joe Reminiscent. My 07 the Czechoslovak frontier, factory clerks, between G00 accent for the best of reasons landscapes, it seemed, remind and Arpad was promised a pro- and 800 forint monthly. -I went to Harvard.

"In my third year at col- lege, I decided I wanted to be

playwright,

a

ed them of Corot; the coloura- tion of my still lifes was too Matisse-ish.

and shortly "Well madam, I had to face after I graduated cum laude, up to facts. It was obvious that

Me and

So

minent position there.

There were also openings for skilled officers in

the after of

the huge

largest

A worker absent from work attractive for the third time is dismissed polical and his labour record marked Manfred "discharged by order of the one Security Police." He can never engineering gat employment anywhere else,

I finished my first play. And the arts would never bring out Weisz plant in Budapest,

was a great moment for me, the Real some months later, when I brooding about it I decided to works in central Europe, This and is condemned to starve to stood in the wings of a Broad- tollow the calling which way theatre and watched opening performance.

*

pro- plant is at present under Rus- death. sian control, producing Soviet indivi-

which, Decording to Arpad, are of the T-34 type.

its duces

rugged more dualists than any driving.

other-cab-tenks

the

A

I Was

of

Tension Grew

The Russian mujors getmed with Arpad's work.

was

But Arpad was getting TES- the "Again I went through

Live, Under the veneer necessary apprenticeship. "Next morning, the critics garage mechanic, in my neigh-toughness which his political pleased

to Instructors taught him to as But Arpad was disgusted with At the farm, once so reported that the play had its bourhood taught me how

at his faibe himself.

his prosperous

family five boy. At home, entertaining moments, but was manoeuvre in traffic, I studied sume, he was a pimple the street maps of all a bit on the reminiscent side. The first act reminded one cri- boroughs, and anally, through a farm, things were going from starving. In the factory, work- bad to worse. His father was ers could not afford even their political connection, tic, of

with 200 Cufford Odels;

medium peasant

customary glass of good Hun- neres of land, too small to be garian wine or prung-brandy. second, according to another granted a licence by the Hack

Saro Burcau,

touched by the land critic, smacked of Bill

reform third, yan, and the

In the

Before the Communists seized Orders came to arrest people "The very first day, however, crític, opinion of yet another

the power in Hungary there were out of I hadn't been

mere suspicion. on the form. Last on 400 pigs steal from Eugene

minutes garage more than 20

only were O'Neill:

two, centration

ut when a motorcycle cop blew year there

Hungarians work This year there is one.

labour него growing at an "Well, nobody ukces to by his whistle and pulled along-

alarming rate,

Everybody wax accused of pilfering the brains side. As he wrote out a ticket he explained I had been speed-

afraid and suspicious of his! of his betters, and so I gave

neighbour.. A fake step taken. tackled ing like Barney Oldfeld, round- up the

theatre and

wrong word uttered, it was music. I rented a plano, en- ing corners like Floyd Davis, and Sir Malcolm rolled at Julliard, and after burning oil like

Was

+

| three years of hard work suc- ceeded in having.my first gym- phony performed by the Phil harmonie at Carnegie Hall,

pronounced it a good symphony,

Campbell.

The

Wheat Crop

camps

The con- where

forced

Last year the farm's, wheat all so easy to make a mistake.

Arpad 'molf began to fear, erop, was 2,700 bushels. Arpad's father was ordered by the Go- The tension grew and became vernment to surrender. 3,400 unbearable. bushels of wheat. He did not

have them. Thanks to the good And one day Arpad put on offices of bin influential son he his leather jerkin, which in the was allowed to make up the Iron Curtain difference in maize.

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"Tho critics unanimously "Well, I was so annoyed with

countries is the a very good one, in fact--but myself that I got out of

unmistakable. badge of the reminiscent. Ono of. them cab and left it in the middle

secret police, and nonchalantly pointed out there was a bit at the street.

of

In this way most of

his strolled towards the frontier, Sibelius in my main theme "Since I was reminiscent, malzo crop went to the Go- This was the story of Arpad; ] * Another said he was intrigued even as a cub driver, I made vernment, and there was by the curious blend of Wagner up my mind right

Then

and enough loft on tho farm to Today he is a refuges living and Debussy in the second there that the only way I could feed two piga. One had to ho in a Nissen hut and cursing the

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