Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confession of guilt out of Foreign Minister Rajk, the Stalinists sent mild-mannered Janos Kadar, his best friend and wartime comrade, to talk with Rajk in his cell. "Of course, we all know that you are innocent," said Kadar, but "by doing this you will render a historic service to the Communist movement." Rajk confessed in court-and was hanged. A little later Kadar himself was arrested. "After his release," wrote Hungarian Journalist George Paloczi-Horvath, "he told the Central Committee how he was tortured. A lieutenant colonel of the security police had beaten him until he fainted. When...
George Paloczi-Horvath (who fled Hungary during the revolution last October) was a state witness in Kadar's trial in 1951. "Kadar's once handsome face had become distorted," he recalled. "He had a terrified and at the same time ferocious expression." Judged guilty, Kadar was sent to solitary confinement for three years. Wrote Paloczi-Horvath in the London Sunday Times of his own five years in a Communist prison: "There is a chance for expiation, for facing oneself and one's past squarely. But solitary confinement, utter degradation and an ocean of pain leave curious traces...
...Kadar's chief torturer was Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Farkas. Not only did Farkas make Kadar submit to utter degradation, but he had him castrated. The turn of the Communist wheel made Janos Kadar Premier of Hungary last October. Forecast Paloczi-Horvath: "Now he can take revenge. He has power...
...officials say privately that Kadar wants Mindszenty to leave so that he can be depicted to his people as a runaway. Kadar is also thought to believe that, with Mindszenty out of the way, the U.S. might be more inclined to send back a minister to replace Edward T. Wailes, who left Hungary two months ago on State Department orders without ever having presented his credentials...
...does not recognize the right of diplomatic missions to offer international sanctuary in the manner practiced so widely in Latin America,* has been fearful that the Communists might try to seize the cardinal by force. Last week's feeler was welcomed in Washington as tacit recognition by the Kadar government that U.S. protection has been effectively extended to the cardinal. Unless he gets official instructions from the Vatican to ask for a safe-conduct-which seems unlikely-Cardinal Mindszenty will probably stay on in his present haven indefinitely...