The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

Serious writing included a book about the Hungarian secret police and he narrated a BBC television report of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mikes graduated in Budapest in 1933 and started work as a journalist on Reggel ("Morning") a Budapest newspaper. In 1946 he became a British Citizen.