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‘A THE SITUATION IN HUNGARY, ine ee PR és 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 situaThe most important fact in the situation, is the absoluTitoism 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 fation 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 dictatirship 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: : KEGYELET CAM An petals si
