EXECUTIONS IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28313, 26 June 1957, Page 13

EXECUTIONS IN HUNGARY

Charges Made To United Nations (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 24. A Hungarian refugee leader said today deportations from Hungary to Russia had increased from 35.000 to 51,000 in one month, and that smuggled evidence showed that four to five executions were being carried out each day.

Dr. Bela Fabian, a member of the Hungarian National Council, the headquarters of which are in New York, demanded an immediate meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to end the mass liquidation of Hungarian youth and freedom fighters. Dr. Fabian made his demand in a letter to the United States delegate to the United Nations, Mr Lodge. He showed reporters a letter smuggled from Hungary giving stark details of the present situation.

There is already a possibility that the Assembly, now in recess, may be reconvened. Mr Lodge has called the representatives of 24 nations to meet on Wednesday to consider this possibility after publication of the Assembly’s special investigating committee's report on the Hungarian rising.

The 24 countries invited are those which, in January, sponsored the setting up of this committee.

In his letter to Mr Lodge, Dr. Fabian said that the Russians were liquidating the best of Hungary’s youth. He exhibited a smuggled letter which said: “We know from reliable sources that at the military tribunal alone there is an average of four to five executions every day. The trials are held in secret.’’ The letter said that Mr Imre Nagy, Premier of the short-lived revolutionary government, would go on trial soon. The trial had been delayed, the letter said, for fear of irritating Jugoslavia