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Last week the Italian Communist Party organ Unita printed a dispatch from its Budapest correspondent suggesting that if the U.S. would request it, Hungary's puppet Premier Janos Kadar would be happy to grant Mindszenty a safe-conduct allowing him to leave both the legation and Hungary. To these officially inspired Communist overtures, there was a noticeable absence of response by both the Vatican and his U.S. hosts...
...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...
...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 of adventure or because of lack of information." If by this choice Kadar had hoped to discredit the Freedom Fighters...
...including the one who helped hold AVH man Kollar, the sentence was death. As the word fell from the judge's lips, there was a gasp from the 400 spectators in the courtroom. The judge threatened to clear the court. Tommy-gun-toting guards edged forward. This was Kadar's Hungary...