CABINET CHANGES IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25208, 12 June 1947, Page 7

CABINET CHANGES IN HUNGARY

Statement By New Premier COUP D’ETAT DENIED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) BUDAPEST, June 10. The Prime Minister of Hungary (Mr Dinnyes), in his first address to the National Assembly, denied that there had been a coup d’etat in Hungary. He said nearly all the members of the old Cabinet had remained in office. Evidence was produced at the first conspirators’ trial which involved the former Prime Minister (Mr Nagy) and the former Speaker of the Assembly (Father Bela Varga), but this could not be substantiated. When the Government had later received the evidence of the former secretary of the Smallholders’ Party (Mr Bela Kovacs) it had asked Mr Nagy to return from Switzerland to answer the charges, but he had refused. Mr Dinnyes announced that the Government would nationalise the large banks before the completion of the three-year plan beginning on

August 1. but the new Cabinet stood for private property. It would welcome foreign loans on reasonable terms. In Berne to-day Mr Nagy told the correspondent of the British United Press that he was “exceedingly pleased that the world does not give credence to the charges against me and my party, the evidence on which was forcibly drawn from Mr Kovacs. One hears daily of new arrests in Budapest and the extraction of new confessions. These methods undoubtedly belong to the policy of Communistic expansion,” he said. “Such actions are to be expected after the failure of the Moscow Conference.”