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XeA.5e December 528 - page two = | A carefully planred action is going on, since last June, inview of eliminating entirely the whole clergy, fecviler and. regulare — Reliciovs communities have been dissolved by the Hungarian authopities 3 their members are exiled from their corvents end either interned or dispersed throughout the country. A regulation forbids them to take on any parish works One after the other, 211 the seminaries for the formation of young priests are being closed and nationalized. Some of them have been taken over by the Hungarien Office of Church Affairs. They are to be vsed as training centers for young cormvnists to be formed in "pastoral work", Once their "etnülest comleted - the first group will be turned ovt in 1953 - they will be entrusted with the administration of — parishes that are now left without priests. Another repressive measure has been the dratting of 1.590 priests for military duty. The official reason given for this decree ig the regime ‘need for additional manpower in order to “defend peace". the true aim of course is to prevent these Catholic priests to fulfill their ecclesiastical ministry. : mm. Bávoation and the cultural problems Among the innumeredle reports reccived from Hungary, a few facts can be retained, which thew a vivid Licht on the intellectual and cultural subjugation imposed on Hungary along Sovict patterns. There are but very few among leading Hungarians left that ha not come directly from the Moscow schools put are the remgnants of one of the extreme leftist grovns that in 1945 jointd enthusiastically the . communist camp, Minister of Agriculture Erdei and Minister of Public Instruetion Joseph Darvas are among the few remaining representataves of such a group, the National Peasant Partye Today they have to overe emphasize the communistie line if they want to escape a constantly | threatening purgee This explains Wr,Darvas! state of mind, when he mm works full sveed for the total application of the new Soviet pedagogye Early in September then, Mr.Darvas delivered a spsech to the top administration of the Hungarian Education Department. He spoke about t1 aim toPgehieved in the new school years Aceording to him, the main goal to be reached in edneational work among youth was to implant the true patriotiam, the international vroletarian solidarity and the uns comporomising hatted towards the enenye As enemies, ireDarvas, mentiol the imperialists, the right-wing socialists and the clerical reactions School directors and téachers mee? responsible to lead such ruthless ficht agsint amy of these enemy forest, whereever they appear: be it among the teaching staff or in the youth. The political education will thus be the first objective of the forthcoming school yeareece foorktame One of ovr informents gives most interesting details about a new higher echool having been opened in Budapest in September. It is the tmiversity of Marxist Selhences, set up direetly under the — leadership of the Ministry of Education. This school is to form the future Party propagandists and hop employees. Its foundation was decided upon at the Tune meeting of the Party Central Committee. Aurin that highly confidential reunion, the top people of the Party, especia ly those repponsible for its ideology, made a very thoroveh selfs
