THE ENEMY: That Knock upon the Door

Six weeks had passed since Robert Vogeler stepped tense and ashen-faced from an airliner at New York's Idlewild airport, after 17 months in Hungarian Communist prisons. One day last week, the marks of his ordeal still etched in his face and voice, Vogeler stood before Washington's National Press Club, and for the first time told the full story of his imprisonment and torture:

Case History. "When a human being is physically and mentally broken, and placed in solitary confinement for 17 long months, his world is largely one of emotional, mental, and spiritual imagery. And if his body is further affected...

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