The Hungarian commander-in-chief and War Minister General Art�r G�rgei also protested against this plan, underlining that as the concentration point of the Hungarian troops instead of Miskolc, Kom�rom should be appointed, and because of the imminent treat of the Russian intervention, he saw that the only way still open to the Hungarian army was to deal a decisive blow to the main imperial army before the slowly moving Russian forces arrived.
32.
The underlying principle of the five-level hierarchy was to provide economies of scale by establishing direct connections between centralized call " collection points " ( essentially the Class 4 offices ) where economically feasible, and to provide additional concentration points ( Class 1 through 3 ) to handle overflow traffic that could not be handled directly, or to handle traffic to locations which were less likely to be dialed from a given point-usually longer distances and / or smaller locations in other parts of the North American dialing plan.
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Elizabeth Bentley testified that NKVD spy chief Jacob Golos warned her to stay away from the IPR because it was " as red as a rose, and you shouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole . " Likewise, Louis Budenz, former editor of the " Daily Worker ", testified that Alexander Trachtenberg of the Communist Party-affiliated International Publishers told him that party leaders thought the IPR was " too much a concentration point for Communists; the control could be maintained without such a galaxy of Communists in it ."
