July 11, 1958
HUNGARY AND RUSSELL: Washington, 10 – According to a State Department spokesman, about 100 people were convicted in trials last month in Budapest. According to reports from the Hungarian capital, a government spokesman said that the widow of former government minister Laszlo Rajk, Julia, had been executed, clarifying, however, that she had been convicted of a separate crime. He did not say who else had been executed. In London, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, condemning the execution of Imre Nagy and his associates and expressing his concern at the hardening of Russian policies, said that he had broken off all relations with the World Peace Council which is to meet in Stockholm on July 16. ARTICLE BY CYRUS SULZBERGER: New York, 9 – In an article in the New York Times on potential troublespots in the Balkans, Cyrus Sulzberger commented that although Constantine Karamanlis had won an electoral victory and was known to be a strong supporter of the West, the alliance of the extreme Left, which gained a large number of votes, favored Greece’s withdrawal from NATO and a pro-neutral stance.
