András Tömpe and the Long War within Communism* A tall dignified man in his late fifties, whose English moustache only accentuated his military bearing, András Tömpe brought two guns to work one day at Vörösmarty Square. He wanted to be sure. The disciplinary verdict was due to be read at
The study of a national culture is, in essence, a search for beauty. To believe this we need not submit to romanticism or deny the cold realities with which history confronts us. Either in concert or isolation, mankind consistently contradicts utopia’s vainglory: our efforts are ever flawed. But beauty is
To transplant a juniper is a tricky business – often it perishes in the attempt’, considers the poet, enclosed by a little-world of enduring canopies brought forth from his own defiant planting. ‘That is why, perhaps, it was junipers I chose. That is why I contemplate the survivors – they
If you are an Englishman living on the European mainland, you will no doubt have come across the idea that England is a conservative relic; an impression that either charms or infuriates the continental observer. But while there is some veracity contained in this concept, its truth may belie the
ALLIED SUPERVISION OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION By the summer of 1946, eighteen months after the provisional Hungarian government had signed the armistice with the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States, the two Western powers on the Allied Control Commission (ACC) had long established a pattern of credulity, passivity and
DEPORTATION OF GERMAN HUNGARIANS – AFTER POTSDAM At the Potsdam conference in July and August 1945, the specific deportation of ethnic Germans received the decisive approval of all three major powers. While the decision would certainly be distorted and manipulated, its substance gave a foundation for what followed. “Hungarian opposition
AN ALLIED SUPERVISED ECONOMIC COLLAPSE It was the economic unravelling of post-war Hungary in which Soviet machinations and Western acquiescence were initially most damaging. Economic crisis, of course, had begun with the German occupation of March 1944, the resulting ruthless exploitation of Hungary by a desperate Reich, and the cataclysmic
“The US and the UK entered the crucially formative post-war months in Europe gripped by a delusional idea of Soviet aims and methods. This was an illusion not based on an inability to perceive the future, but on a wilful and perplexing refusal to acknowledge the precedents.” The path to
There is an insistence about the memory of a poet. It is an irresistible and involuntary awareness, born of being a witness – one who perceives and then bears that perception upon his shoulders. Where can he carry it, and can others, like Simon of Cyrene, bear it also? This
Those whose consciences would not permit them to comply with the shrivelling of Christianity were forced to keep that witness and fellowship alive outside the purview and protection of the church–state settlement. And this is indeed what occurred in the 1960s and 1970s – vital church life, where it existed,
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