PARTY POLICY IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25302, 30 September 1947, Page 7

PARTY POLICY IN HUNGARY

COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS

COMMON PROGRAMME ADOPTED

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, September 29. The Budapest correspondent of Reuters says that a . capital levy and the liquidation of all' privately-owned gold stocks and foreign assets are two of the main points in a 30-point common programme publicly adopted by the Hungarian coalition Government s Communist and Socialist Democratic The joint programme, he adds, is practically the same as that published by the Communists immediately after the general election last month. If the Government adopts the programme, all non-essential articles, including tyres for private cars and foreign films, will be heavily taxed; all State-owned concerns must cease to make losses by May, 1948; the number of Cabinet posts will be reduced and the salaries of diplomats severely cut; all big banks will be nationalised; and incomes over £6O a month will be invested in a three-year plan. The two parties demand the disfranchisement of all Fascists, a new election law, aqd municipal elections as soon as the law is passed. In foreign policy they want treaties of friendship with all democratic neighbours, and ask for protection of the rights of Hungarians living within Czechoslovakia.

Present for Princess.—The Malayan Union’s wedding present, to Princess Elizabeth will be a carved table of the best Malayan ornamental wood covered with a length of the finest cloth from the State of Trengganu and bearing three pieces of silver from the State of Kelantan in the form of a bowl and two fruit dishes. —Singapore, September 28.