Protests Around World At Nagy Execution

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 11

Protests Around World At Nagy Execution

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 21. The United Nations Special Committee on Hungary met in emergency session today to discuss the execution of Mr Imre Nagy and other leading figures of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

Informed sources said that they expected the committee to reach unanimous agreement on a statement condemning the execution or imprisonment of leaders of the 1956 revolt. Dr. E. Ronald Walker, the Australian permanent representative, presided in the absence in Denmark of Mr Alsin Andersen, the regular chairman. Truncheon-swinging police clashed in Bonn and Munich last night with demonstrators protesting against the executions. The police made two baton charges to disperse the group in Bonn, forcing the demonstrators to board the buses which had brought them to the Russian Embassy. They arrested 18 Hungarians and a German. Munich Clash In Munich, about 1000 Hungarian and German demonstrators clashed with German police I who tried to stop them from pre-| senting a petition to -the Bavarian : State Government. Hungarian refugees and others staged a silent protest march along the Champs Elysees in Paris. In Moscow. 500 Soviet workers i today made a protest demonstra- ! . tion outside the Danish legation ! in retaliation for “hostile action’’ | against the Soviet Embassy ini Copenhagen on Tuesday. They f

stoned and pelted the embassy with eggs and nearly all the embassy's windows were broken. A Danish Foreign Ministry spokesman in Copenhagen said the Ambassador in Moscow, Mr Alexis Moerch, would call on the Soviet Foreign Ministry today to protest against incidents in front of the Danish Embassy there. Indian M.P.’s In Bombay, a number of Indian members of Parliament, in a statement today, declared that the executions of the former Hungarian Prime Minister and his associates “proved that Stalinism, with all its horrors, may be restored in the Soviet Union.” In Reykjavik, Iceland, last night, a mass meeting of students’ associations and political parties in the main square protested against the executions. Nearlv 10.000 persons approved •i resolution proposed by the | poet. Tomas Gumundsson. ex- ■ pressing “painful sorrow" because of “the continued works of terror. after a declared truce had been broken, by the secret trial i and execution of four of the i loaders of freedom fighters in I Hungary." Canadian Note ! In Ottawa, the Prime Minister. ■ Mr John Diefenbaker, accepted Rhe Opposition’s suggestion that

Canada address a stiff note to Hungary protesting against the executions.

At Belgrade, President Tito conferred yesterday with his Ambassador to Budapest, Mr Jovo Kapicic, who had been summoned home for consultations after the Hungarians had announced the execution of Mr Nagy. President Tito has so far made no public comment on Mr Nagy's execution but a Jugoslav Government Note of protest to Hungary is expected to be delivered tomorrow. Moscow Complaint Moscow Radio told listeners in North America last night that town and countryside in Hungary were wholeheartedly approving the execution of Mr Nagy and his “accomplices." The broadcaster said that the hands of Mr Nagy and his accomplices were “stained with the blood of innocent, murdered Hungarian citizens.” Their crimes were “committed in alliance with foreign imperialists” and they were punished according to their deserts. Complaining of American reaction to the “just" sentences, the commentator said that the American leaders were “not concerned over the welfare of the HunI garian people, but over how to prevent the growth and strengthening of Socialist ways."