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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1949.
ANOTHER 'CONFESSION'. IN HUNGARIAN TRIAL
OPTIMISM AT UN MEETING
Lake Success, September 19.* The fourth session of the Unit- Nations General Assembly will 'open at Flushing Meadow on Tuesday in a mood of restrain- ed optimism over chances of set- tling some major issues on the bursting 73-item agenda.
Budapest, September 19.
The last of the eight defendants in the Budapest treason trial pleaded guilty today, ending the series of confessions “which alleged UnitedTM States and Yugoslav espionage behind the Iron Curtain. Sentences may be pronounced on Friday or Saturday.
M. Lazslo Rajk, former Foreign Minister, and seven other high officials are accused of treason and spying for the American and Yugoslov Secret services.
Lazar Brankov, one of the) merly British Commissioner on Control Commission defendants who is alleged to the Allied
and Mr. LC. have headed the Yugoslav In- for Hungary,
Vice-Consul in telligence Service in Hungary, Pettit, formerly
were Budapest,
named told the court today of Yugo-Yugoslav defendant, Lamar Bran- by s slav espionage in Czechoslova- kov, who claimed to have been
cia.
He named the chief of Yugo slavia's Intelligence Service there as a man called Dradic. Assistant
Missión in Prague,
in touch with agents."
these
"British
a time when... Marshal Tito was
Film Star's Engagement Broken
Hollywood, September 19.
The London-bern movle star, Elizabeth Taylor, 17, and William Pauley, 28, today an- -nounced that they had broken their engagement because of "too much distance."
The actress said she would be tied up here making pic- tures until the spring, when she goca to Italy for the shooting of “Que Vačka," Paufey, businessman, liyes
on the Press
East Coast--United
America Asked To Back MRA
Caux-sur-Montreaux,
September 19.
Delegates from 59 member na-
The spokesman declared: *in tions arrived in droves today by
any case General Edgecombe left plane, boat, and train. Amoor them are the Soviet Foreign Min-Chief of the Yugoslav Military Budapest in September, 1947, at ister, Andrei Vyshinsky, the Another defendant, Dr. Tiber still being eulogised as the most American Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and a strong con-So, who until his arrest was devoted of Stalin's followers". Sir Patrick Dolland, Scottish
Central Personnel Secretary of
Mr. Pettit was à consular ofl-editor of the Labour Party a nation all others tingent from are watching closely Yugoslavia the Hungarian Communist Parcial and was thus concerned with newspaper, the "Daily Herald,"
pleaded guilty
charges of consular. not political, duties, he asked the United States Con session will be opened at me 11 am in the huge Assembly Hall American Office of Strategic Se
having become an agent of the stated.-Reuter on the old World's Fair ground vices (055) in Switzerland in by the chief Australian delegate,944 Norman Makin, substituting for He raid that Mr. Allan Dulles, Dr. Herbert Evatt, President of the previous Assembly.
A hopeful atmosphere con trasting with the gloom before
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brother of the United States Senator, Mr. John Foster Dulles, was the chief of the American Intelligence Service in Switzer-
LADY BROOKE VICTIMISED
London, September 19.
the Paris meeting a year ago and during the war, and had George Augustus Stower, aged
reflected in pre-Assembly managed a recruit a number of statements by key delegates and political emigres in Switzerland, in more concrete diplomatic de-ncluding Czechoslovaks, Poles velopments
sad Germans "who were Trot- The nimble-tongued Vyshinsky, s
skytes." delivered
а many
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The doctor added that he was
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21, was sentenced to three years imprisonment here today for rob- bing Lady Brooke, the former Ranee of Sarawak, of a cigarette case and £20.
cress to support the Moral Rearmament Movement in a speech at its World Assembly here yesterday...
Com-
Sir Patrick said that i gress would give Dr. Frank Buch- man, the Movement's founder, the support he deserves, "we in Europe will do the same."
"No country is better fitted to give the ideology of Caux to the world than America, he declared economic TC- "Through but
He was acquitted of a charge of against the West at United Na- also in contact with Mfr. Nocl H possessing an offensive weapon. sources and material power, size Lions meetings was all smiles and Field; who, he said, was "ofl-20-year-old labourer, who plead-We want her to be the spiritual Frederick Thatcher, al is now the leader of the world. friendliness when he landed
at rially LaGuardia sirport.
a representative He said he American Unitarian Service Com- and Derek Donald Gould, aged 19,
of the ed guilty to robbing Lady Brooke, leader as well. was very optimistic about chances
Repre- In the audience were for world peace and then added.)mittee but who, in fact, was the who pleaded guilty to receiving a
handbag, were each sent to prison sentative William R. Poage (De- mocrat, Texas) and Mrs. Poage,. No evirience was offered against Mrs. Homer Ferguson, wife of the Patricia Gould, aged 23, who had Republican Senator from Mich- been committed on a charge of Igan, and hira Harold D. Cooley, receiving stolen property, and she wife of the Democratic Repre was found not guilty and dis-sentative from North Carolina. charged-Reuter.
Beuter.
assistant of Mr. Dulles "But I'm very optimistic by, na-American Intelligence Service".
in the
fure."
If he was looking for a flare up in the touchy Balkan area or the Chinese Communist grab for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's United Nations seat, he did not show it.
American delegates for several days have been exuding a feel- ing of confidence too that the 10- week Assembly will make some contributions to peace.
a
Three Routes. Dr. Szonyi declared that there were three routes through which Information was passed from Budapest to Switzerland to the American intelligence Service.
The first was via Yugoslav in- telligence agents to Mr. Dulles, the second tó Mr. Field in Berne The entire first day is expected and the third by letter sent by, a to be consumed by the business courier to the American
Office of electing President, seven of Strategic Services. vice-Presidents (the Big Five Dr. Szonyi said that be mew and two others), and the chair-of the contact between Marshal men of six Assembly committees. Tito and the American - Intel-
Reneral debatements
at which im.ligence Service.
portant polits
will The alleged coup d'etat plani
| doubtless be made by several red in Hungary by himself and
delegation chiefs will begin o Wednesday.--United Press.
| AFGHAN KING TO
VISIT EUROPE
Peshawar, September 19. King Mohammed Zahir Shah, of Afghanistan, is to leave Kabul this week for eye treatment in Europe. He may also visit the United States for further treat ment.
King Zahir Shah was attended earlier this year by the British surgeen, Sir Henry Holland. Sir Henry told Reuter in Karachi after his visit that the King's eye had been affected by a bad tooth. This tooth has now been extracted, but the eye is still cauS ing trouble.
The King will fly to Europe by way of Teheran-Reuter.
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Korea Appeals To ROXY
United Nations
Lake Success, September 19,
3.
The Republic of Southern Korea today appealed to the United Nations to send military aid to cope with the threat of Communist encroach- ment from Russian-dominated Northern Korea, In a letter addressed to the "The General Assembly The hearing of the defendants General Assembly on the eve should advise one or mare Allied evidence was concluded this of its
opening, Dr. Chough powers of World War II which aftercon whea The eighth Pyung Ok. permanent Korean are friendly toward the Republie of Korea to give military aid accused, Paul Justus, one-time observer at the United Nations, and sufficient to
cope with chiet ideologist of the Hungarian asked that the world organisa-critical security situation created Social Democrat Farty, pleaded tion strengthen its Korean by guilty.
The examination of witnesses Asiatic country of 30,000,000)
Commission until the divided Communist expansion. In 4. The Assembly should take will begin tomorrow.
constitutional measures to curb persons is unified.
the use of the veto power in the Dr. Chough's letter made these Security. Council where, Korea proposals to the General Assen has been denied United Nations Office biy:
membership because of the ex- 1. "Uati Korea is unified the cessive and abusive
use of any truth in the United Nations Commission on Soviet Union of the veto power.” allegations at Saturday's session Korea should be strengthened Dr. Chough Told a press con
British Denial
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of the Budapest trial that two British omcials in
and military
the
of the
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advisers added to ference: "If the United Nations Hungary it."
cannot
sclve the probletn had been involved in the plot-1
2 The United Nations should Korean independence it means a ting to overthrow the Govern adopt a declaration that member surrender to Communism, Korea sations will assume joint respon- is divided by cunning strategy General xibility for the security of the exercised by the Soviet Union, Oliver Fearce Edgcoombe, for- Republic of Korea."
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