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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949.

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Police Files

Prison

Could Any Man More Amazing

THE

BUDAPEST.

HE case of "The People v. Laszlo Rajk and Others" is drawing to an end in Budapest.* It is a trial whose meaning echoes far. beyond the courtroom-yes, and far beyond Hun- · gary itself.

There are eight accused. all at the time of their ar France. He helped Marxist stud- ents to distribute illegal leadets. rest lending Communists. He was arrested with a group of And at the head of them in students, and sentenced, as a importance is Rajk himself, Cominunist tympathiser.

He explained all this in court. recently Foreign lin a voice which showed no traen country of emotion. He said he had betrayed his friends at that Ume and had been betraying them ever since...

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Minister of the which accuses him.

Together these men repre- sent the menaco which threatens Stalin's Europe.

Think back to 1935. Sta- in dealt with this menace

He exchanged his prison cell

and beatings for freedom with

Drugs

Tell A Story?

IT IS A STORY, THOUGH, WITH AN

to return to college as a police. the stroke of a pen. He agreed IMPORTANCE FAR agent and spy on his fellow. BIGGER THAN THE

at home in a wave of trials students. climaxed by that of his commander-in-chief, shal Tukachevsky.

After that he worked as a MAN HIMSELF... Mar- police spy all over Europe, Wher- ever he went there were arrests, sometimes executions. He suf- fered much himself, was wound- ed in Spain, imprisoned France, interned in Germany. He could never escape that signature.

Chief accused

RAJK AND CO., of course,

"Wherever I went," the beauti fut modulated voice told the court "I betrayed those who regarded me as their closest com-

are not the chief ac cused in this trial. Tito is the chief accused; and those in the dock in Budapest are rade." witnesses for the prosecu- tion in the much larger trial- of "The Cominform V. Tito,"

Smiling spy

WIT

WITH that casy smile of his Rajk-Number One on the list Rajk invited confidences -is an elegant, pleasant-looking from his political friends, and man, with high checkbones, passed on the information to the prominent lips, and a domed police of Horthy of Hungary, of forehead. Ho used always to have France, of Spain, of Vichy a half smile on his lips, but that France, and Nazi Germany. has disappeared,

It's double ilfe started all over again and be plotted tho overthrow of the Rakosl Govern ment with Yugoslav help.

He packed the highest positions In the police force with officers sworn to help him in his first big post as Minister of the Interior,

THE RAILWAY

RUMPUS.

It

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Highlights The Need For Speed

By J. W. TAYLOR

HE controversy about

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We are also

Во

reminded that wages and lodging for seven wartime years the wors lind only turus now shaking the permanent

minimum maintenance, railway world sheds light on that work still has to be done on one aspect of railway work- the tracki lo prepare for. ing in Britain-speed.

fuater expresses; the coal for the locomotives in not perlaps ng good na. It might bc; and Whatever the arguments the Railway Executive have between owners and opera- quite properly decided that tors, the average rail pas all-round improvements rather their polley must Be one of senger is quite decided on than particular attention to a one point. Ho does not few spectacular achievements want the trains slowed, and in the realm of spood. changing crowa on long-

distance runs does have this

effect.

He

wants л

takes speed-up. The subject of spood There has not been one on point of view of the recently on a new aspect from the the railways for quite A publicised ultimatums About time.

rail employees - "working rule."

to

Fifty years ago trains on Fact is there is no one rule most lines from London to book for the British Railways. some time the provinces were as fast Every line has at

been issued with one of the as, if not faster than, they books in force on each of the are today. The fastest train four former company systems, from St Pancras to Not- and the Rallway Executive tingham nowadays takes still in the process of compil- Ing a standardised rule for two hours 27 minutes-four British Railways. minutes longer than the fastest in June, 1889.

extraordinary attitude in court, the absence of any emotion as he ripped the vell from the elegant Foreign Minister and disclosed

The best that 1949 can do the cheap police agent, the pro- fessional spy who betrayed others from Nottingham to London -not out of love for his own is two hours 43 minutes. It country or hatred of another was two hours 24 minutes way staff not for political ideals, but fifty years ago. because he once signed a piece of paper to save his skin.

Confession

Meanwhile, the "cottipany" Looks contain about 240 prin. cipal rutes designed to secure the safety of passengers and staff and the safeguarding of rolling stock, merchandise and luggage. Furthermore, rail- working in goods yards are issued with, a fot appendix-bulklor .even than the rule book itself with a Top-speed train from King's wealth of detailed instructions Cross to Bradford al present for the loading and stowing is four

hours 24 minutes. of goods. It is, therefore, in whereas the filer of 1809 took the Foods yards that tho only four hours three minutes, greatest scope 'exists WHY did he confess? Torture,

"go-slow" mavement. W

beatings, drugs could not Trains from Bradford to Lon-

The shunters, who nimbly have produced

faster the composed don go a little

and couplo lang figure ho presents in court. If than they did then. The Brad assemble third degree methods are used fordlan of 1899 could get to lines of trucks; rely for safety by the Hungarian police, Laszlo King's Cross in four hours 20 on their unique skill born of Rajk would know all about it. minutes, while today its suc- long, and sometimes painful,

They could As Minister of the Interior he in-cessor does it only five minutes experience, stalled the system, and he would faster.

slat on trucks coming to rest.. as the rule prescrible before coupling up.

be anxious to avoid taking the

T

now

medicino he had prescribed for Present-day drivers say that

others..

reasons

for this include In- The confession he presented inferior coal and, in some cases, court is merely a repetition of outdated rolling stock, as well rough" permanent evidence pieced together after as "rather several months of day-and-night ways in some parts which slow questioning by teams of highly up speed. experienced quizzers.

Once the trial led to Rajk the Police began to check his post,

Uld Ales were opened. His lifa fell apart.

for any

in-

THER rules not usually ого- literally interpreted

vide that:

Only the Jekyll-and-ydo Peter Burchett then was about 100 tons, cam requires special attention, see

existence that Rajk has led for the last 18 years can explain his

now. --(London Express Servicej

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

British Railways point out

Vonmen must hold their that the llits trains which sped

when the tracks in 1860 connot by horres' heads

a train compared to the glants of to- passen; guards shall examine iday. The average train weight notices to see whether anything

pared to more than 500 tons that the train is

properly labelled, that all couplings are that. connected,

emergency -and-Arst-aid equipment are. that parcels are 50 In the luggage van as to be easily accessible at their .. Gan- respective destinations. gers and sub-gangers shall ex- plain the rules applicable to permanent-way staff at least twice a year to men under them, and secure written de- clarations from. the men that the rules are understood. The At the time of his arrest the I saw him addressing an elec- your Rojk says he was doing thi

NEW YORK.

EXT year's

UTHOR

Shecan 3ft hammer wheel-lapper (car- examiner) tion meeting near the Austrian same thing in Hungary for the ROCERY

MILLIONS heir, N will want to know more started a controversy by rage and waggon

senda 34 waggons for repair in border a few days before he was Americans and the Yugoslavs.

38-year-old Huntingford than how many people there suggesting the best move, the

According to rule arrested in mid-May this year,

Hartford, has married 19-year- are in every American family. US could make

be to one day. Death was never far away

defective waggon, how- Peasants had collected there to

When did elect a woman President. His over slightly wrong, should go bring him gifts of bread, wine, from Rajk since he signed that old Marjorle. Steel, a Hollywood Other questions:

elgarette girl.

you leave school? How many reasons: She would not be a He would and sucking pign. His face was document in 1931.

Every day Hartford, who runs hours did you work Inst year, professional politician; only in for repair and that would wreathed in smiles and he have been struck down by the

could

mean nearly double the usual convince the New York model agency, sees and what did you get for it? woman clapped louder than everybody as secret police if he had shown

times have many

you world's masses, including the daily dispatches to the repair What is your Russians that the US wants, andy go in for ond loose bolt.

shops. A waggon should right- the crowd clapped and chanted any wavering. He would have scores of beautiful cover girls. How homage to Red Leader Matyas been wiped out by the Com-But the moment he saw Miss been married?

Do you means, peace. Steel selling cigarettes in, a house (if any) worth? munists if they had recognised Hollywood night club, he bec- own a TV sel?

As for passenger traile, sta- koned her, and bought up her Question that has been re-

ilor staff usually correct half- According to Rajit's statement

believe He asked her to jecled-Da

handles One point will probably never entire stock.

by in court this was about the tlund be cleared up in the incredible have dinner. A few weeks later God?

clicking them to as the train the coup d'etat and the assassinn case of Laszlo Rajic. What did he he proposed. tion of Rakusi should have taken want at the end of the war?

leaving and similarly stom ming open doors. pince.

Rakost.

Early arrest

him as a police spy.

Fostnote, Hartford smoke.

of the

you

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Vincent

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CIENORA PERON'S brother

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every

Tho rules allow them methodically to do this as they walk from one end of the train to the other, and then only should the train be waved off.

Passengers with special: concession tickets

in NO TRUMANITE would closed door bolt

ment on A report Washington magazine United States News that the present US doesn't OMMUNIST HERO of the Government favours re-election moment, Paul Robeson, is of the Socialists in Britain. The Gestapo and the Horthy police were finished. He felt ho

thinking of capitalising all the "but does not want this country had redeemed his bond. No one

CULTURE is now as much part attention he has had from those to provide the issue that would knew of the accursed document.

essential equipment concert riots. If he can establish assure their victory." Back in Hungary he was accepted of American beauty queens as a New York residence in time FOR a brief period Rafk was as a Communist who had suffer curves. Eighteen-year-old Jacque he will run against Republican

an ideallatie revolutionary, ed much.

Mercer was named Miss America John Foster Dulles and Tru- Juan Duarte has arrived in workers'

manite Herbert Lehman for a At 21 he returned to Hungary

in succession to Bebe Shopp not vacant Senate seat this autumn. New York officially on a sight- could Insist on their own com- He was given high 'positions. Aonly because the Is from studying

Kirk pretty philosophy in

seeing tour. In fact, he is trying partment and station em- career was open to him, and be but also because her rendering

to arrange an invitation for his ployees could also insist 'on probably believed he was coming of a passage from "Romeo and

of 22 Ameratan sister to visit the. U.S. A Survey

putting on a special carriage out on top on the winning side. Juliet" had most of the judges in cities by the National Aɛ-

for them. *Since this article was written, But Arst, so he alleged in court, tears.

sociation of Real Estate Boards Rajk and two of his seven co- an officer of the US Intelligence

reported that in all but three are carrying American air applying to the various grades defendants have been sentenced Service, Major Kovacs, and thea ASSACHUSETTS Legislature of them home buying. to death. Two other defen- the Yugoslav Minister of the In has been asked to nullify booming again. Sald the as- man to and from their bases of railway working. "Working dants were sentenced to life terior, Alexander Rankovich, convictions of 10 women and five sociation: "It is due to a ro- in England. Average load per to rule" could mean that the imprisonment, and another to produced photostat copies of the men hanged at Salem as witches turn of confidence on the part plano: 04 men. Officials, say public would learn of them nine years.

1931 document.

267 years ago.

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