Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State sternly asked Prague, Budapest and Warsaw what information they had on the Fields. But behind the Iron Curtain, no one knew-or would say-whatever had happened to that fellow Noel, his brother Hermann, and that German girl whom Noel had married...
...Kremlin has a secret method of extracting confessions from its victims. In a speech to the Yugoslav army, Tito said that Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been taken to Moscow after his arrest in June and trained to confess in his treason trial, held in Budapest last month. Said Tito: "They prepared that trial according to some method which they have. You saw that everything went as it should. I do not know how one gets people to try to accuse themselves as much as possible, but it is certain that some monstrous method is used...
...ones on planned group tours and projects, such as the many Youth Hostel and NSA tours. There were also the people on the Experiment in International Living, who spent part of their summer living with foreign families, Friends Service Committee workers headed for reconstruction camps, and a sprinkling of Budapest Festival delegates. Each little group held its own meetings too, which added to the confusion...
Russia annulled her treaty with Yugoslavia on the ground that the confessions of Laszlo Rajk, onetime Communist Hungarian Foreign Minister, in the Budapest show trial, had proved the existence of a Tito-U.S. conspiracy against Russia...
There were similar incidents of intense majority "pressure tactics" against the minority. One meeting was called in which the Steering Committee demanded the power to investigate "rumor-mongers." Warshaw notes that rumors were circulating throughout Budapest when the Americans arrived; rumors of secret police raids, of Russian troop movements, of the torture of political prisoners of widespread poverty in Hungary. The meeting was called by the chairman of the Steering Committee to discuss the fact that "these rumors are dangerous to the delegation...