HUNGARIAN POLL RESEMBLED NAZIS’
WASHINGTON, May 19. The State Department said today that the election in Hungary on May 15 was a “controlled plebiscite” reminiscent of those staged in Nazi Germany. The department said that the Hungarian Government had thus violated its peace treaty undertaking to safeguard the freedom of political opinion; The statement alleged that the Hun* garian authorities “intimidated individual ‘ voters from expressing their opposition by the absence of secre* balloting.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22952, 21 May 1949, Page 5
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