BRITISH DENIAL OF CHARGES MADE AT TRIAL
LONDON, September 19 (Rec. 11.50 a.m.}. —In London tonight, a British Foreign Office spokesman denied the allegations made at the trial that two British officials in Hungary had been involved in plotting to overthrow the Hungarian Government. A Jugoslav defendant, Lazar Brankov, at the trial had named as “British agents” Major-General Oliver Pearce Edgecumbe, a former British Commissioner on the Allied Control Commission foi’ Hungary, and Mr L. C. Pettit, a former Vice-consul in Budapest. The Foreign Office spokesman said: “General Edgecumbe left Budapest in September, 1947, when Marshal Tito was still being eulogised as the most devoted of Mi- Stalin’s followers. Mr Pettit was a consular official and was thus concerned with consular, and not political duties.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1949, Page 5
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