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...murals of the Spanish inquisition on the walls of Budapest's Marko Street courthouse had been obliterated with a coat of pastel blue paint since Cardinal Mindszenty's trial (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). But the same judge who had sentenced Mindszenty was in charge-Court President Vilmos Olti, a prominent, fascist of the Hitler era now known as the Red "government hangman." Mindszenty's prosecutor, Gyula Alapi, was also on hand again...
Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. Pushkin had successfully directed the Red rape of Hungary; in 3½ years as Russian ambassador in Budapest he had discreetly masterminded many a Communist coup, including the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk. Last December he took over his duties in Germany. Last week U.S. officials in Germany were wondering if Pushkin's pogrom might be prelude to a new Russian plan to seize all Berlin...
...Communists, education is a branch of politics. This month's Budapest Köznevelés (Public Education), outlining an elementary-school curriculum by the Hungarian Education Ministry, runs true to doctrine...
...industries expropriated was the U.S.-owned subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. I.T. & T.'s Central European representative, U.S. Citizen Robert Vogeler, and its Budapest manager, Briton Edgar Sanders, were arrested seven weeks ago and charged with organizing a widespread espionage ring. In response to this "arbitrary and inhumane" action, the U.S. has forbidden its citizens to visit Hungary (TIME, Jan. 2), and Britain has broken off trade negotiations with Budapest...
Peter Gabor, Budapest's bloodthirsty police chief, committed suicide in his prison cell last August...