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...critical days of the Hungarian revolution last November, the hospitals of Budapest were the scenes of many grim dramas. When the hated AVH police came out of hiding and joined the Soviet tanks in their savage crackdown, they shelled wards filled with children and wounded. Hospital courtyards were packed with the bodies of dead Freedom Fighters. Last week, for some unfathomable reason, the Kadar government in its first show trial decided to base its case against the Freedom Fighters on an incident that occurred at Domonkos Street hospital during these tense, terror-packed hours...
...charged with having murdered a patient, Istvan Kollar, with successive hypodermic injections of narcotics, gasoline and air. She had discovered, by a photograph of him in uniform, that Kollar was an AVH man. Dressed in a navy blue overcoat too big for her slight frame, Ilona Toth appeared in Budapest's gloomy municipal court with ten other Freedom Fighters chosen from the thousands in Kadar's jails. They were picked for trial, the middle-aged woman judge indicated, because they were "intellectuals, students and ne'er-do-wells" who had acted "merely out of a spirit...
When the Soviet tanks came blasting back into Budapest to oust Premier Nagy's legitimate government, Editors Obersovszky and Gali urged continued resistance, changed the name of their clandestine journal to We Live! It was during this time that Hospital Patient Kollar fell under their suspicion: the underground group feared that he would betray them. Said Ilona Toth: "I felt I had to kill him." When her needles failed, one of her companions stood on Kollar's neck and she dispatched him with a knife...
...BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 9--The Hungarian government gave an expulsion notice with a 48-hour time limit today to Capt. Thomas R. Gleason, U.S. assistant military attache, as the result of a picture-taking incident...
...Welcomed home, after his dramatic four months' holdout in the U.S. legation in Budapest, U.S. Minister to Hungary Edward Thompson Wailes. Career Diplomat Tom Wailes arrived in Budapest last November in the midst of Hungary's upheaval, never got to present his credentials to the short-lived Nagy government, thenceforth refused to present them to the Communist Kadar regime because it "did not represent the people." Under persistent and rising Communist pressure to recognize the Kadar puppets, Diplomat Wailes took a final step to avoid doing so: he arranged with Washington to order him back "on consultation," then...