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...Austria last week a trusted emissary of Hungary's Roman Catholic bishops, who had slipped past the Iron Curtain, gave the first details of how his church had sought to stop its complete liquidation by coming to terms with Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi (TIME, Sept. 11). What Rakosi had given, Rakosi had taken away...
...Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...
Even in kindergarten, the Soviet indoctrination of Magyar moppets is going on apace. The daily Magyar Nemzet reported an interview with one student of dialectical materialism, four-year-old Robert Rev. Robert quickly identified the portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi on the classroom walls. Said he: "They are discussing how to prevent war, and planning the construction of more factories, more kindergartens and more shops...
Rajk said that he then agreed to join the plot against Rakosi and other Hungarian Communists. "Rankovich told me,"Rajk said, "to annihilate them physically; that is, in plain Hungarian, to kill them...
Probably the peasants of Gyor and of all Hungary would never know. The Communist Party, from its earliest days, has been wedded to conspiracy and treachery. Its quest for absolute power corrupts its members; none knows whether his comrade is a traitor. Maybe Rajk was a spy; maybe Rakosi...