CHARGES OF MURDER
HUNGARIAN TRADE COMMISSIONER. FORTY-FOUR COUNTS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.40 p.m.) Budapest, January 21. Matayas Rakosi, after serving eight and a-half years for helping to create a Communist organization as trade commissioner of the Bela Kun regime, now faces charges including 44 counts of murder in connection with sentences passed during his term of office _ by revolutionary tribunals, also executions carried out under martial law in the same period. Rakosi is further charged with lese 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 the actual defence is entrusted to four Hungarian lawyers under the supervision of an international lawyer, Vambery, a son of the famous explorer. Marcel Millard, President of the International Jurists’ Association, has prepared the brief. Rakosi is suffering from heart trouble, and is not allowed access to papers and books. Counsel submitted that Rakosi should be tried by jury and not by the Bench, and insisted on the competence of the present tribunal. Rakosi contends that the Bela Kun Government, under which occurred the incidents culminating in the charges, was as lawful as any capitalist administration. _
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Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 7
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