HUNGARIAN REGIME

Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 11

HUNGARIAN REGIME

Underground Opposition (N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) BUDAPEST, June 9 Disclosures of nation-wide activities to undermine Hungary’s Communist regime emerged from testimony yesterday in the Budapest trial of 11 Catholics, the Associated Press reported. Written into the record were many dozens of names of priests and others who led an organisation which trained potential rulers for an envisaged Hungarian Christian democracy. It became clear that other mass trials of Catholics will be held in the near future or, possibly, have already been held in secret, the new’s agency said. The 11 accused, including several priests, former priests and monks, are indicted with attempting to overthrow the regime in building up an elite Catholic Youth Corps which would assume leading posts should a Christian republic of Hungary be created. The defendants said in evidence yesterday, the second day of the trial, that they were hazy about how such a republic would be born. They said they had at one time hoped that agreement might be reached in the United Nations for a neutral Hungary permitting free election.E'ght of the 11 have so far taken the stand to plead guilty.

Borotra Entry.— Jean Borotra, who made his debut as a French Davis Cup player in 1922, has entered for this year’s Wimbledon lawn tennis championships, which take place just a few weeks before his sixty-third birthday.—(Paris. June 9.)