IMRE NAGY’S SISTER

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28618, 21 June 1958, Page 13

IMRE NAGY’S SISTER

Escape To West Rerlin (N.Z.‘ Press Association—Copyright) <R ® C - -, 11 pm ' > PARIS, June 20 Marika Nagy, sister of the executed Hungarian leader, Imre Nagy, has escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and is now in West Berlin, the “Paris Journalreported today. ‘My brother certainly expected the worst, and I can repeat some of his words: ‘I am now an old toy who has not succeeded in doing what he had hoped. And the Russians are not in the habit of encumbering themselves with old toys,’” Miss Nagy told the newspaper, according to the British United Press. “Paris Journal” said Miss Nagy arrived at a refugee centre in West Berlin on Wednesday. She said that the first time she saw her brother after the revolt and their subsequent arrest was on December 4, 1956, at Sinaia, 50 miles south of Bucharest. Imre was kept in a small villa guarded by Red Army soldiers. The last time she saw her brother, the newspaper said, was on January 16, 1957,

My brother was not arrested by the Hungarian police, but by the Soviet police, who kept us confined for several days at Hungarian secret police headquarters. “We were kept in cells without

any means of communication. When I saw my brother for the first time on December 4 at Sinaia he was very depressed and had lost a lot of weight,” Miss Nagv said.

‘I asked him if he had suffered physically at the hands of the Hungarian and Soviet police and he replied, ‘No.’

“My brother was interrogated every day by officers of the N.K.V.D. (Soviet secret police) I know they tried to get from him a written confession that he was a foreign agent and that the Hungarian counter-revolution had been supported by the United States secret services. My brotnei

was never willing to sign anything. Nor did he ever confess to the alleged crimes they accused him of.”