BUDAPEST TREASON TRIAL OPENING
Yugoslavs Reply To Charges
Belgrade, September 15.
The Yugoslav Government to- day issued a statement describing the trial of the former Hungarian Foreign Minister, M. Laszle Rajk, on charges of treason, opening to- morrow, as a a new and monstrous anti-Yugoslav provocation.
Budapest, September 15. Tomorrow's trial of M. Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister and atop Com- munist leader, is the most important of its kind since the Trotsky treason trials in Mos- cow 13 years ago, observers said today.
THE CHINA `MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
Report From The Middle West
This intrepid excursión - indo This exquisite irony is in-1. enemy territory has proved sstervigorating nets. than a stroll down Fleet-street.
where first major move should be for Sir Stafford Cripps to come here once the Washington talks M. Rajk will go into the dock with seven other de-
An Englishman is not molested The problem is not that we are are over and give a vibrant sales an the boulevards of Chicago, become America's 49th State, fendants accused of spying for the United
No one has twisted my arm but that America is to become a States and Yugoslavia, and plotting to overjar brandished a Est tinder my part of the United Kingdom and Chicago resents British politi- throw the Hungarian Government.
Buse, although I have talked the swear allegiance to King George cal leaders spending all their British case loud and long from Of course, not all of Chicago time in Washington, of which one end of the city to the other. shares the colonel's views. It they are suspicious, or in New Chicagoans just now are more buys his brassy newspaper, reads York, which they often denounce to press a hot dog or a the sports section, glances at the and frequently envy because it en you than huri comics, and occasionally digests is bigger and wealthier and more abuse or insults (some think the painfully the hot and lumpy stew famous. British are starving)
in the editorials.
About six foreign press correspondents will report
The
the trial, which is to be held in the hall of the.mburger
Hungarian Ironworkers" „Trade Union. The British, American and French Legations have been issued with two tickets each so that they can send observers to the trial.
Even a daring foray into GHQ into the Tribune. Tower itself, where the ferocious Colonel Bertie McCormick broods and erupts, turned out to be safe
The statement, which issued by the Directorate of In-
Soviet novelist. Boriscretary and Vice-Premier of the formation, said tha
that the aim of Polivol, will cover the trial as Hungarian Government General this provocation was falsely to the
special
correspondent of Mihaly Farkas, the Defence enough. accuse the Yugoslav Government "Pravda," the Soviet Communist Minister and a Deputy Secretary and the Party leadership of vari Party's official newspaper.
of the Communist Party- and ML, ous actions, shoddy intentions, and The defendants in the trial are Frue. Goro, also a Deputy Secre obscure schemes,
specifically charged with treason tary of the Party. The declaration, which was 16 speci pages long, made no comment on and espionage as well as having the indictment against M. Rak gaged in a plot to himself, but only on the accusa-the Hungarian tions contained in it against Yugo-force as slavia.
overthrow
out-Manoeuvre
Their Invitation
doons of Chicago, business The opportunity is here to be grasped, the dollars to be gar-
After years. of this poison the bloodstream has become slightly. polluted and you can take it as
A visit by Sir Stafford Cripps an accurate report that Britain is not my suggestion is the particularly Socialist Britain, is wish and hope expressed to me British feeling, the camp of the the slick Sir Stafford Cripps and
not popular here, If this is the citadel of anti-
There is a dreadful feeling that arch-enemy, then we have little the braway Bevin will outsmart to worry about
simple, The colonel's moustache, once straight forward, honest, and nered Alleged Connections
bristling, is damp and straggling honourable Uncle Sam Perhaps the most-sensational (in the hot, humid air. Government by
The expedition into the alleged-of headaches the worst by far Naturally Chicago has plenty part of the indictment deals Ee is calling America thely hostile heartland was organis being the housing shortage. with the alleged connection of "Hand-out State," but chiefly, ed simply enough. the accused with, the Yugoslav according to his editorials, he I merely bought a railway Government and specifically seems to be in mortal terror that ticket in New Tork, walked with the `Yugoslav Minister of Britain is going to take over the down a red carpet (it is laid down the Interior, General Rankovie, United States, tear down the for all passsengers), and boarded as well
as the charges) that Stars and Stripes, and hoist the the Twentieth Century Limited, -certain highly-placed "members Union Jack over the land. probably the most luxurious train
Tito's personal
in the world--and certainly me od the fastest and smoothest running
agents of the States Secret Service
It described the indictment, in Yugoslav Government.
so far as it relates to Yugoslavia,
United
and the
The second defendant, Lieuten-
Fality,
of the
a former t
as the basest document in the en-ant General George tire history of international re- former Chief of Staff
Hungarian Army and lations.
Yugoslav Major General Harish Deputy Defence Minister, is also claimed here that he blew up 157 charged with having been Nazi trains in Yugoslavia during Yugoslav agent since 1945.
the war, more than the whole Ukraine partisans corps did to- rether.
Reply To Charges
He was replying to explonage and treachery charges against himself and other Yugoslav veterans of the Spanish civil war contained in the Hungarian Government's indietment at M.
Rajk
Redcoats Coming
The other day his wheezing organ said plaintively: "Our Anglophile
State
Department. otherwise known as His Majesty's Under-Secretariat of State for
Marshal circle have been foreign intel- ligence agents within the Yugo- slay Communist Party for many year, even before the war.
such They include
leading Yugoslav personalities Yugoslav Brankov, Ales Bebler, well-known in the the sal important matters afoot
as the chief spokesman of several
Tito's Ex-Official Defendant No. 3 is the former Charge d'Affaires the
Budapest, M. Lazar
of
as
They
up
There are hundreds of thou- sands of people, many of them ex-Service men, homes.
unable to get and trebling up.
are doubling
Some are living in shacks and trailers and garages in the heart of Chicago itself.
These people bitterly resent American money being shipped The people here are a generous to Europe when, according to warm-hearted, delightful!
Int them, it could be better spent They cannot take too much trou-building homes here.. ble to help the English innocent
burlesque city.
wandering the stupendous, busty,
There are more
houses and striptease joints t
Chicago alone than anywhere else in the world.
to
who resigned as Marshal Tite's Marshal Tito in the United Na. and added later. "It is not too The city, with its neon jungle representative last October and tions and Deputy-Foreign Minis- much to hope that same day we and blazing electric bulbs, looks publicly declared himsel for! *****
ter of Yugoslavia, Colonel General shall achieve our independence like a State fair. the Cominform.
I have been trying to find out He is charged with having been van Goshnjak. Marshal Tito's of England" General Harish told a meeting the chief of the Yugoslav intel main leaders
personal deputy and ene the This has all been a great shock just what chance Britain has of of Spanish war veterans
the
of the Yugoslav to me. The redcoats are about selling her goods in this fair. I comrades from Hungary and Bul-geace network in Hungary and Communist Party. and General to invade the Middle West and am not too optimistic after talk.:
aria had worked as we did
with having declared himself for they would not have come back to the the Cominform under the order 50zhidar Marslaria, President of suppress the Colonials with fire.ing to the local Chamber of Com- place for anyone to make a dis-
the
Minister Yugoslav countries with pipes and umbrel-
They
And somebody Interior, Colonel General should blew up at least one train, ander Rankovic, to enable him to We were blowing up trains
garia
las
who
Mayor Kennelly promises do something about it. The plan not to make Chicago a prudish town, but to draw the line (the G-string) somewhere.
Soon the city will be a hard honest dollar-cr
that is what the mayor.says. I have not much faith in any of these reforms.
This is a riotous, rumbustious,
guess is it will always stay that way. salesmen, poor packagers, poor Footnote from Chicago: More
the General Slay Committee-sword, and our new jet-propelled meree, Chicago merchants, news of the Reuter
papermen; and our own British Alex-
officials here.
in carry out his assignment Hungary up to Lake Balaton, Yugoslav agent in Hungary. looking for Hungarian Commu
The
а
fourth defendant is. Dr.
mists, but we did not find any," Timor Szonyi, who was until his General Harish declared.
arrest the Central Personne
Lieutenant General Gollo Niko-Secretary of the Hungarian Com-
He said that the Hungarian anti-munist Party. Yugoslav charges were intended He is charged with having-be- | to justify a certain undemocratic, come an agent of the American tinsocialist, unpeaceful
combina
Strategic Services in Switzer
aircraft
Unesco To Meet
In Paris On Monday
Paris, September 15.
tion which is being created in the land during his, wartime exile Professor Sarvapalli Radharkrishnan, the Indian Greater Hungarian and Greater there. He is accused of later
heads of certain Greater Russian,
Bulgarian Chauvinists.—Reuter.
Joining the Yugoslav Espionage Service and to have joined the alleged conspiracy of M. Rajk the orders of the American
•Sategic Services. Headquarters
Hamburg, September 15, Count" Gottfried Von Bismarck Shoenhausen, aged 48, grandsonin of the Iron Chancellor, and his Austrian-born wife, Meranie, aged 33, were killed in a road crash yesterday.
Their car collided with an ap proaching lorry on the highway between Rothenburg and Verden,
1946.
The others face similar charges. Que of the charges is the or-
Ambassador to Russia, presided today over a meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's Execu- tive Board, which met to prepare the agenda for the General Conference, which opens here Monday.
ganisation of a plot under the The Board's, cgenda includes a report on technical.
direction of the Yugoslav Gov- ernment to
assassinate the leaders of the Hungarian Com- munist Party, especially
M
In the British Zone-Eeuter. Matyas Rakosi, the General Se-
Germany Wants Eastern Land Back
Bonn, September 15.
The German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, to-
day ruled out all possibility of a friendly atti tude or understanding between Russia and Germany until the land ceded to Poland was returned and all German's East of the Iron Curtain were freed from Soviet rule. He gave these views, after being elected chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, in an ex- clusive interview with the United Press the first he has granted to the press in his new position.
The new Chancellor answered questions without show of emot- ion. He referred to the land East of the Oder River-what the Rus- sians ceded to Poland
He continued: "No friendly at titude toward the Soviet Union is Possible wa
as long as this simation prevails. There cannot be under-
standing, between us and the So viet
until the Germans East of the iron curtain have been handed back their freedom! And eve
even if the Big
Four should agree on an all-German solution, an agree- ment with the Soviet would be acceptable to us only if it includes Just settlement of this
Asked what action he proposed on this question, the Chancellor of four hours standing took off his reading glasses, shrugged and answered: "We shall have to
keep up the belief that those Germans living there or who were driven out by the Poles are not left alone and we should also keep the con- viction alive that these territories are Validly ours" datories He quickly dismissed 2 question about possible German participa tion in the Atlantic Pact with: "We are a demilitarised country, but those who demilitarised us also assumed the responsibility to defend us. United Press:
AMETHYST IN
SINGAPORE - Singapore, September 14. The British - sinop TELAS Amethyst, when in the gauntlet of Chinese Commulst guns, in the Yangtze River her fins Harbour, here today to the wel. coming blast of sirens from 70 chips of all racions no kno
Five Russian ships in port re- mained silent, refusing to join in the welcome United Press.
assistance to under-developed territories.
The Director General, Senor view of the artistic, cultural and Jaimes Torres-Bodet's, report on religious influence his country the activities of the UNESCO has had on that area.
and the proposals, for a 2,211- Mr. P. N. Kirpal, of India's
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widening channel between "Britain This month only two represent-and America. atives of British manufacturers have visited the city. Last month there were 11.,
There is a tendency among our businessmen to rely on Gover- mcot agencies and Consular off cials to do their work for them.
Instead of going out with their sample cases and doing a strenu- ous selling job they are leaving it, to the bureaucrats.
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satisfaction in tre- on Greek refugees in the Middle The Board at its afternoonmendous quantities. Fast, and aid to Ecuador,
session decided to invite General A
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of UNESCO. In Beirut last year.
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