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THE SITUATION IN HUNGARY,
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There were. plenty of news from Hungary in the last few.
the pieture of military preparations, while intesresting indications
-Show some possible crises in the evolution of the domestic situa¬
The most important fact in the situation, is the absolu¬
Titoism or anything like ite It is simply a life and death strugzle
for supremacy in the Communist party between the present secre=
tary Generam Matyas Hikosi and Minister Ger¥. Both men are now in
open strugsle. Gerő accuses Rikosi of petty bourgeois tendencies,
corruption and lumyrious livinge Makosi accuses "erő of being alien
to the people, of not being to talk the language of the masses,
of being much to remote and tsolated ever to become a powerful
leader, the fight now has been carried to Moscow, but our observer
feels that - as in certain cases in Czecho-Slovakia — Moscow will
refuse to intervene and will let things ride to their bloody end.
Thus the fight for power will go on in Budapest, and it will only
some trumped up charges. It is as yet to early to say who the lucky
winner will be, But so far the preliminary rounds have gone in fa¬
tion of the planning office one of his most trusted henchmen,
dent, became there enflamed by National-Socialism, and went so far
as to serve the Nazi Regime in Hungary during the bloody dictatir¬
ship of Szhllasy in 1944, In 1945 he joined the Communist party,
and — i intelligent and rúthless enjoyed the protection of
Mkosis The fact that Rikosi was powerful enough to put this man
definitely purged, And this might well be the great event of ‘the: :
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