individuals accused of illegal activities. Fortunately for the truly
civilized part of the world, the trial's cruel travesty on Justice could
not be concealed, but, on the contrary, was revealed in all its despicable
evilness.
  First arrests were carried out May 27, 1946. The public learned
of these arrests through sensational front-page articles in the Com-
munist controlled press. These articles told of the discovery of sub-
versive terroristic organizations which had hidden deposits of arms,
ammunitions and infernal machines; that these organizations aimed
at overthrowing the Government, insurrection of the Army and dis-
rupting unity of Rumanian State; that among the arrested were
prominent members of the opposition parties, the National Peasant,
under leadership of Iuliu Maniu, and the National Liberal, under
leadership of C. Constantin Bratianu, and Rumanian employees of
the American Political and Military Missions in Bucharest; and that
the organizations, as could be seen from the confiscated propaganda
leaflets, were anti-semitic, anti-communist and anti-russian in char-
acter. Thus the stage was set to produce irrefutable proof of the
necessity to dissolve the "Fascist" historical parties and to infer
to
the world that the United States was supporting these organizations
and therefore unmasked itself to be the cradle of reactionary Fascism.
  After holding the accused under detention for nearly six months
the much heralded trial, which was rushed through with morning,
afternoon and evening sessions, commenced on November 11. On the
following day the indictment was read.
  After a brief resume of the indictment, which was eighty-one pages
long, this report, instead of treating the trial as it progressed from
day to day, will endeavor to present the plot of Emil Bodnaras (Secre-
tary General of the Presidency of Council of Ministers and Rumanian
Communist Politburo member, recognized Chief of Secret Police),
as it was uncovered during the trial.
  [Here follow details of the indictment and of the testimony given
during the trial.]

     INQUISMON METHODS TO EXrORT INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE

  The mere fact that the trial was built up mostly on the basis of
"synthetic evidence produced in the laboratory of the Secret Police
and Judiciary authorities", as one outstanding lawyer told the Court,
served to make even the Judges of the Court believe in the veracity
of the declarations made by numerous of the accused that they had
been tortured morally and physically at the prison of Pitesti to
extort from them false declarations to incriminate them and the Am-
erican and British Missions.



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