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writer who produced a number of antifascist tracts, Katz was Willi's "roving ambassador," making trips to England and Hollywood
to raise money and maintain political contacts.23 Katz apparently
spied on Willi for the Comintern and had played a crucial role in
engineering Koestler's release from Spanish prison.
Simone (Katz) made his way back to Prague at the end of World
War II and eventually became the editor of the Communist daily
Rudé právo. Just as in the case of the Soviet Union, the Slánský trial
in Czechoslovakia was part of a propaganda campaign to teach
its citizens certain lessons about deviating from the Party line
as well as what devotion to the Party would ultimately require.
Public confessions were required of all fourteen defendants. The
Czechoslovak Communists were well-schooled by their Soviet
masters.24 The trials took place from November 20 to November
27, 1952-eleven of the fourteen defendants (including Katz)
were executed on December 3.
Koestler got wind of his friend's fate and monitored the trial
from his home in London. He listened to the BBC Monitoring
Service's broadcast of the final statements of the defendants.
Simone concluded his statement with this utterance: "The only
good service that I can render is to be a warning memento to
those whose origins, character, and temperament could tempt
them to take the same hellish path which I took. The sterner the
punishment, the greater the warning."25 As Koestler listened, he
heard clear echoes, even a paraphrase, of Rubashov in his final
statement to the prosecutor: "I will describe to you my fall, that it
may be a warning to those who in this decisive hour still waver . . .
I will describe to you the sad progress of a traitor, that it may serve
as a lesson and terrifying example to the millions of our country"
(249).
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