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News about recent regulations and measures prove the same
point, viz, the Russian=controled intense military preparation, In
recent weeks for example, the censorship of letters with foreign
countries has been taken over by Soviet authorities, All the mail
from and to Hungery is from now on to pass through the Soviet censorship
offices established in Vienna, By this means, Russians hope that fewer
news about be-armament and economy will pass to the West.
A more important fact still is the eonstmuction of new
railroads which present - contrary to official communistiec declarations¬
mo economic ner traffie advantages; since the centers they connect are
presently desserved by an intense autobus net of the MAVAUT, that warks
in a more satisfactory and less expensive way. The purpose of the new
railroad lines is a purely strategic one, Hungarian railroads up to now
had been built in a star-like form, meaning that they ail left from
Budapest and from there reached out to the whole countrye This was in
line with Hungary's general policy pf centralization of the entire
Cargath basin around the magyar capital city. In case of war, of course,
this presented the grave disadvantage that, with the destruction of the
Budapest center, railroads throvghout the country could be blocked, The
other disadvatage wes the detour through Budapest that any Hast-West
traffic had to undergoe Keeping these facets in mind, it is important to
note that the two great new lines which are now under constnvetion are
both Bast-West in direction and avoid Budapest. One of these lines
comes from the Carpatho~Ukraine, that is today Soviet territery and,
nce finished, will link with each other the main centers of Russian
military coneentrations Debrecen, the, (crossing the Tisza river after
Kun-Szent-Mérton) Kecskemét, and finally (erossing the Danube over the
new Dune-Foeldvar bridge and passing the new railroad center of
Sarbogard, which wakes the ecomection to Budapest and to the South)
Papa and Szombathely and from there into Austria, The second line goes
parallel to this one, but further North, It links the Soviet Union to
the wie’ Gace Northern Hungarian eenter of Miskele, touches the Danube:
at Vae (where it is linked to Budapest and the South) and remaining
north ¢ that river without having to cross it, continues into Slovakia
and Vienna. Very clearly a double route of military transport and 7
invasion is bétng built, connecting the Soviet Union with its bases
in Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia,.and Austria and opening the way te Yougo¬
slavia, Western Austria, Italy and Switzerland.
Further news items secured from ail parts of Hu and from
the most different sources of information, fit without exeeption into
the same picture and verify the same conclusion, Such reports are the
starting of the first and well-equiped atomic laboratory in the
nyos street in Budapest; the development of new uranium mines
at the Lake Velenees the setting up of compulsory and intensive air
protection courses at the Matthias Rakosi plants, to be attended by the
whole staff outside working hours; the building of large air-raid
shelters at strategic factorics, the Hungarian Youth giving "voluntary"
hours and sundays for that purpose; the compulsory collection of “serap
iron and metal" earried out in every home and taking away such essential
as household equipgments, kettles, workmen's tools that are still in
perfect conditions the unprecedented expansion of all branches of
industry that work for military purposes: the textile and leather
factories which are entirely taken over fér the needs of the army};
the production of electrical appliances and radios which, by order of 57