Once Hungary kindly arranged a peaceful end to the Cold War, the politics of all Western countries, including Japan and including the newly Western countries of the former “Eastern Europe”, have been in disarray. That is because during the long conflict the political divisions in almost all nations were provoked and arranged
The publication of the manifesto in September by the former Czech president, Václav Klaus, and signed by various European politicians and academics, which criticised an article by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the German Green Member of the European Parliament, was not the first occasion the two men have crossed swords. In December 2008, a famously bad-tempered exchange took place between them
INTRODUCTION For much of the twentieth century, it was widely accepted in liberal circles that America is the blueprint for the future of other countries. England was treated as a similar blueprint in the nineteenth century. But the Anglosphere cannot be a blueprint for other, very different countries. Even Continental
Where does Europe end? The question of boundary has been discussed for quite some time. It is an old one indeed, going back to the destruction of the Jewish temple, the disintegration of the Greek city-states, and the collapse of the Roman Empire. This is what provides historical material for the
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himselfaccording to the outcome, he would never begin.Even though the result may gladden the wholeworld, that cannot help the hero; for he knows theresult only when the whole thing is over, and that isnot how he became a hero, but by
MY WORK AT THE PREMIER’S OFFICE BEGINS Having obtained my two doctor’s diplomas, during the next fourteen years I spent most of my time outside Hungary, first in post-graduate studies abroad, then in the Hungarian diplomatic corps. It was in the autumn of 1935 that I was transferred from North
Zoltán Álgya-Pap was the only Hungarian general in the Second World War who received the coveted gold medal for extraordinary courage in face of enemy fire. Like most of the country’s military by 1944, his troops were dispirited, sick of the war and the Germans who on 19 March that year not only occupied their nominal ally Hungary but in fact took control of
A LIFE SPENT ON SHORT WAVE You have to be totally devoid of common sense not to believe in mystery. Mystery is there every step we take, literally under our noses. This is something every lathe operator who works with metal, every joiner who works with wood, every sculptor who
AB: In the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, the official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is no mention of the name of Miklós Radnóti. The great Hungarian poet, who was born in Budapest into a Jewish family, later converted to Catholicism, but that didn’t save him from
Look – night is falling and dusk is absorbing the wild oak fence, edged with barbed wire, the hut’s so floating. A slow stare lets the frame of our bondage go and the wire’s tightness is just in the mind, just in the mind. Look, my love – see how
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