EAST EUROPE

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28155, 19 December 1956, Page 11

EAST EUROPE

Sir, —I have to thank you for your footnote to my letter in today’s issue. It shows that I did not make the point I wished to make clear. My reason for passing the news item on was in order that those interested might know that there is a distinct difference between the Suez Canal operation by the British and French and that in which the U.S.S.R. has been engaged in Hungary. As opposed to your suggestion, it must be a great blow to the class your newspaper represents -to have the knowledge that the Socialist States are vigilant and strong and on guard against the organised espionage. The British and French were not invited into Egypt; the Red Army was invited into Hungary.—Yours, etc., R.H. December 17, 1956.

Sir, —The spate of anti-Soviet propaganda served to us over Hungary in the name of democracy, is a nauseating insult to informed honest intelligence, and «goes to show something of the amount of mental prostitution in the service of vested interests. Through journalism, broadcasting, cinema, and other means of mass influence, unscrupulous sellers of their mental and other abilities get lucrative opportunities which are used to delude and deceive the ill-informed and lazyminded. It is pertinent to point out that the spotlight is never focused on the position in Spain, where a dictatorship forced on the Spanish people with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy still maintains power, holding down the mass of the people in poverty and ignorance. The Franco dictatorship is quite agreeable to big business, religious and secular, and something similar would be imposed on Hungary if the reactionaries could manage it.—Yours, etc., A.H.S.H. December 17, 1956.