POLICY OF KADAR

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 11

POLICY OF KADAR

‘Strengthening Dictatorship’

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) VIENNA, January 17

All bourgeois elements must be excluded from power in Hungary, the Prime Minister, Mr Kadar. said yesterday.

In a speech at a Communist Party meeting attended by the Chinese Communist Prime Minister, Mr Chou En-lai, who arrived in Budapest yesterday, Mr Kadar said: “It is necessary to strengthen the dictatorship of the proletariat. “The annihilation of bourgeois elements can only be ensured through the strengthening of the party and of state discipline. “The demand for a more general democracy can only be called a counter-revolutionary demand.” On foreign affairs, Mr Kadar said: “The imperialists planned to drag Hungary from the socialist camp. They are now studying what they can do further in this respect.’’ Mr Chou emphasised the importance of the uity of the socialist countries and their friendship with Russia and praised the decisive part played by Russia in suppressing the counter-revolution.

Mr Chou said imperialists had intended to disrupt the unity of the socialist camp by breaching the front in Hungary. He could understand the indignation of the Hungarian people at the mistakes of the former leadership. He sympathised with the demand that the new leadership should avoid these mistakes. Communist China stood firmly behind the Hungarian Government, Mr Chou said. Aid would be provided to help Hungary continue socialist construction and eradicate former faults in her economy, he said.

MURDER IN ALGIERS

Terrorists Use Rockets

(Rec. 9.40 p.m.) ALGIERS. Jan. 16. Terrorists armed with bazookas tonight killed a French officer and wounded another and two policemen in a bold and carefullyplanned attack in the heart of Algiers.

From a house opposite the strongly-guarded headquarters of the French commander-in-chief, thev fired two rockets into the building. The rockets passed through two rooms and exploded in a third. They killed an Army major and slightly wounded a colonel and the two policemen.