Don’t Trust Soviets, Hungarian Warns
An elderly Hungarian seized the microphone Sunday at a world conference of doctors against nuclear war and told delegates not to trust the Russians.
“They (the Russians) occcupied our country in 1945, and in 1956 (during the Hungarian rebellion) when we were winning the struggle for our freedom, we sent a delegation to talk to them which never returned,” he said.
“The Russians cannot be trusted on any account,” he said.
Conference sources identified the man as Tibor Pataky, an elderly Hungarian lawyer not accredited to the conference. He left one hour after his statement, conference souorces said.
More than 800 doctors from 40 nations are at the meeting, the Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, holding its first session in a Communist country.
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