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...opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept. 22). In Albania, they fabricated an Anglo-American-inspired treason plot to justify death sentences for 16 opponents...
...coup had been prepared by the King with the leaders of the three opposition parties: Juliu Maniu of the National Peasants, Constantin Bratianu of the National Liberals, and Titel Petrescu of the Socialists. The Communists, because of their small number (fewer than 2,000 in the entire country) and the fact that most of their leaders were still in prison, played only a minor role...
Jailed, Exiled, Dismissed. This week, very few of the original participants were at liberty to celebrate the coup's anniversary. Maniu was in prison, Bratianu under house detention, Petrescu under ominous attack in the Communist press. Most of the high-ranking Army officers were under arrest, in exile or dismissed from the Army...
...note charging Rumania's Communist-stooge Government with having violated its peace treaty with the U.S. Suppression of the National Peasant Party, and arrest of Juliu Maniu, National Peasant leader, were both in violation of guaranteed freedoms, said Secretary Marshall. In Bucharest, Marshall's note went unpublished. Ana Pauker, Rumania's Amazonian Communist boss, was setting the tone. In a recent speech she termed Americans "fascists" and "enemies of the people...
Communist Interior Minister Teohari Georgescu's home-grown version of the Soviet MVD snatched some 5,000 persons from offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...