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RUSSIA AND THE WEST

NEW SOVIET DECREE “UNWORTHY ADULATION OF THINGS FOREIGN” •(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. Fresh measures to separate Soviet literature and scientific work from ‘'decaying and degraded 9 ' Western culture are announced in a new Soviet decree, the text of which has just reached London. The diplomatic cor* respondent of “The Times” says: “The decree speaks of ‘unworthy adulation and servility towards things foreign,’ which it says is ‘widespread among the least stable representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia.’ ‘'Previous warnings are cited, notably that given last year by the Central Committee of the Communist Party about the harm done to the Soviet State ‘in grovelling before contemporary Western culture after the manner of several of our writers.’ Such attitudes, the new decree says, must be completely dropped. “The Soviet trade unions, it says, are partly to blame. ‘They do not unmask people who perpetrate/Unpatriotic and anti-State acts.’ “The decree cites by name Soviet scientists and historians who, ‘thirsting for foreign praise and propelled by petty personal glory, publish abroad articles on their work which is reallv the property of the Soviet State? Sjuch acts are said to degrade the honour and self-respect of the Soviet man.” FORMER HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADERS PARLIAMENT TAKES AWAY CITIZENSHIP (Rec. 7 p.m.) BUDAPEST, October 3. 'Hie Hungarian Parliament has deprived Mr Ferenc Nagy, the former Prime Minister, and Mr Deszi Sulyok, former leader of the Freedom Party, of their Hungarian citizenship. Mr Nagy, who is now in America, resigned while in Switzerland on holiday in May. Mr Sulyok soon afterwards left for Switzerland. The Hungarian Parliament decided to recall to Hungary Mr Bela Varga, its former Speaker, who left Hungary for Austria in June. BRITISH COMMENT ON BULGARIAN REPLY <‘PLOW AT SANCTITY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW” P M>NTON, October 3. A British Foreign Office spokesman accused Bulgaria of s ‘striking a grave blow at the sanctity of international law” in her reply to the British protest about the execution of Mr Petkov. The spokesman declared that the reply struck at the whole basis of international co-operation by suggesting that Britain had no right to secure the implementation of Article 2 of the BuJgarian peace treaty, guaranteeing uman rights.

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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7

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RUSSIA AND THE WEST Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7

RUSSIA AND THE WEST Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7