HUNGARIAN TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 7

HUNGARIAN TRIAL

BELA KUN REGIME RECALLED FORMER TRADE COMMISSIONER ARRAIGNED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BUDAPEST. January 21. Matyas Rakosi, after serving 8) years for helping to create a Communist organisation as trade commissioner of the Bela Kun regime, now faces charges including forty-four counts of murder in connection with sentences passed during his term of office by revolutionary tribunals, and executions carried out under martial law during the same period. > Rakosi is further charged with lesc majeste, rebellion, and uttering counterfeit coin.

Mr C. H. Bing, an English lawyer, and M Milhaud, a French lawyer, are appearing on behalf of Rakosi’s family, but tlic actual defence lias been entrusted to four Hungarian lawyers under tho supervision of an international lawyer, Varnbery, son of the famous explorer. Marcel Millard, president of the International Jurists’ Association, prepared tho brief. Rakosi is suffering from heart trouble, and is not allowed access to papers or books. Counsel submitted that Rakosi should be tried_ by jury. Rakosi contends that tho Bela Kun Government, under which occurred the incidents culminating in the charges, was as lawful as any capitalist administration .

[ln 191!) the Karolyi regime was turned out. and its place was taken by a Soviet Government under Bela Kun, which proclaimed the dictatorship of the proletariat. This lasted only a few months. With the aid of the llumanian army it was swept away and a National Government set up.]