Early Life
Peter Fryer joined the Young Communist League in 1942 and the Communist Party in 1945. On leaving school in 1943 he became a reporter on the Yorkshire Post, and was dismissed by the paper in 1947 for refusing to leave the Communist Party. In 1948 he joined the staff of the Daily Worker, becoming its parliamentary correspondent.
Fryer did though cover foreign affairs from near the beginning of his time at the newspaper. In 1949 he reported on the show trial of the Hungarian communist László Rajk, who had falsely confessed to being an agent of Tito and others. He later felt guilt after Rajk's execution and eventual "rehabilitation" early in 1956, for what he felt had been his acquiescence.
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