Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, on trial for plotting to overthrow Hungary's government, was close to the end of the road. The trial itself, charged Marshal Tito last week, was part of a plot to overthrow the Yugoslav government. In a firm diplomatic note, Tito called the trial a "juridical burlesque."
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian...
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