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    "ocrText": "III. THE DIPLOMATIC ESTABLISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES\nA. The Community\nSubstantial Hungarian immigration into the United States began\nabout 1880 and reached a peak in 1911. The 1940 U.S. Census showed\n662, 068 persons of Hungarian origin, of which 290,228 were Hungarian born,\nthe remainder having at least one parent born there. Settling originally\nin Connecticut and the coal mining regions of Ohio and Pennsylvania,\npresent Hungarian-American centers are New York with over 100,000; Cleve-\nland, the most important and active, with some 50,000; Chicago with over\n30,000 and Detroit with 25,000. By states, New York has over 150,000,\nOhio 115,000, Pennsylvania 91,000, New Jersey 80,000 and Michigan 48,000.\nContributions have been mainly in the industrial fields, but\nnames such as Joseph Pulitzer, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Eugene Ormandy and\nJoszef Szigeti attest to Hungarian-American talent in journalism, philosophy,\nand the arts, while they have also excelled in education and medicine.\nTo serve its interests in the United States Hungary maintains a\nLegation in Washington, D. C. and Consulates in Cleveland, Ohio and New\nYork City.\nB. The Legation\nThe Legation is headed by Minister Andrew (Endre) Sik, an avowed\nCommunist since the 1919 Soviet State in Hungary. Born in Budapest April 2,\n1891, and educated in Hungary, he served in her army from July, 1914 to\nNovember, 1915 when he became an allied prisoner. He went to Russia after\nthe fall of the Kun government and taught at the Russian Academy of Moscow.\nReturning with other Russian trained Communists in 1945, he entered the\nHungarian foreign ministry. Since March 5, 1946 he has been in Washington.\nHe has been described as \"academic and intellectual and neither interested\nin nor informed on economic matters.\"\nHis wife Katherine (Katja) Totsky, age 58, is Russian born, as\nare his two childreno The daughter resides in Moscow with her Soviet\nArmy officer husband, while the son, Igor, age 22, is a student at Georgia\nTech. A brother is a Provincial of the Piarista order of monks in\nHungary.\n- 6 HARRY - S. TRUMAN LIBRARK"
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