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...confession experts" are back at work preparing new witnesses for the trials which will be held to prove the correctness of the Kadar regime. Honeymooning with Florence in Italy last week, Paul commented wryly: "Chiefly for the files. That is how Communists make history...
...file of Hungarian soldiers came out of the woods. The lead man carried a mine detector. The soldiers fired a few shots to scare away the Austrians. Then, applying a tourniquet to the girl's leg, they put her on a stretcher and carried her back into Kadar's Hungary...
...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...