U.N. HUNGARY REPORT

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 13

U.N. HUNGARY REPORT

U.S. Defector As Critic MUNICH, June 26. Mr Noel Field, the former United States State Department official now resident in Hungary, in a broadcast over Radio Budapest, attacked the United Nations report on Hungary. Radio Free Europe, a private American anti-Communist radio station, reported this today.

Mr Field was quoted as saying that the report’s conclusions were mostly "slanderous falsehoods interspersed with facts and misleading half-truths. They throw a strange light on the reputed objectivity of both the witnesses and the investigators.”

Mr Field defended the refusal of Hungary to allow the United Nations committee, which prepared the report, to investigate the situation on the spot. “In view of its origin and the atmosphere of anti-Soviet and anti-Communist hysteria in which it was set up, the refusal of the Hungarian authorities to cooperate was understandable, and indeed, the only proper course to take,” he said.

Mr Field disappeared with his wife in Czechoslovakia in 1949. He spent over five years in East European gaols and. after his “rehabilitation” in 1954, decided to remain in Hungary.