Kati Marton

The German chancellor has shown how to win and keep power in a man’s world.

A well-born Swede, who could have lived out World War II in safety and comfort, went to Hungary instead, outmaneuvered the despicable Adolf Eichmann, and saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews. Then, one day in January 1945, Raoul Wallenberg was taken into custody by the Soviet Army and has not been heard from since. He may have been executed by the Soviets, or died in prison—or he may still be alive somewhere in the Soviet Union. The Wallenberg mystery persists.

The Pope from Poland quickly made his mark as a virtuoso performer, a man who charms street-sweepers and statesmen alike. But questions are now being raised about the direction in which he appears to be leading the Church and about his toughmindedness toward the clergy. Here is an analysis of John Paul II’s first eighteen months as Pope and some of the controversies of faith and dogma in which he is engaged.

She was a ten-year-old on the night when the telephone rang and a voice told her father that he was going to he arrested again. She, her sister, and her parents found refuge and then escape from Hungary during the violent Soviet suppression of November 1956. Now an American citizen, Kati Marton returns to her birthplace and tells about life today in the land of “goulash communism.”