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Se JI 52 - page two 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 declarationsmo 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 Yougoslavia, 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