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...Hungary, September 1949, Laszlo Rajk, lifelong Communist, top party theoretician, onetime all-powerful Hungarian Interior Minister and later Foreign Minister, pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi. And who got Rajk into the gory plot? "Noel Field," cried the prosecutor, "one of the leaders of American espionage," who "specialized in recruiting spies from among left-wing elements." Verdict: hanging (and burial in unmarked graves) for Laszlo Rajk and four others; life imprisonment...
...Ernest Laszlo's photography and Robert Aldrich's direction help make the film appear a little grander than it really is. There are some fine shots of a realistic Indian village and of hazy plains and sawtooth mountains. Good scene: Massai's bewilderment as he wanders through the streets of bustling 1886 St. Louis, eying such strange sights as a player piano, a fire wagon, women in bustles...
...Laszlo Rajk, Hungary, executed...
...Laszlo Rajk. 5. Traicho Kostov. 37. Five old historic states became 14 new administrative districts as the Reds performed facial surgery, Communist style, in: 1. Czechoslovakia. 4. Bulgaria...
HUNGARY-Two cliques vied for Moscow favor after the war. Neither risked leaving the country when the Cominform was set up: little shots went instead. One clique was led by bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi, now 62, Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...