RUSSIANS ARREST PROMINENT HUNGARIAN
Received Thursday, 11.15 a.m. BUDAPEST, Feb. 26. M. Bela Kovacs, formerly Secretary-General of the Hungarian Smallholders' Party has been arrested on an order from Generai Sviridov, Supreme Commander of the Russian occupation forces, states the official Hungarian news agency. He will be charged with actively participating in the formation of underground Anti-Soviet armed terror groups and organising espionage directed against the Red Army. Smallholder leaders describe the arrest as direct intervention in internal affairs to further the cause of Communism. The arrest comes two days after the Russian Minister, M. Pushkin, declared that persons concerned in the plot had been spying for the British since 1945 and could be arrested by the Russians on three grounds. British circles refused to comment, but one Legation Attache unofficially said that the charge is "preposterous."
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 February 1947, Page 5
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