COMMUNIST HOSTILITY TO MAJORITY PARTY IN HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT

Grey River Argus, 12 March 1947, Page 5

COMMUNIST HOSTILITY TO MAJORITY PARTY IN HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT

BUDAPEST, March 9. Lieutenant-General Sviridov, the Soviet representative on the Allied Control Commission for Hungary, has rejected the British and American proposal fos a joint Allied and Hungarian investigation of the Hungarian political crisis. Lieutenant-General Sviridov denied that the Leftist bloc including the Communists, was trying to establish a minority dictatorship or to gain its ends had tried to implicate the deputies of the Smallholders’ Party, the majority party, in an antiRepublican plot. A Hungarian democratic court was trying the conspirators and a joint investigation would constitute rude interference. Lieutenant-General Sviridov declared that the Russians had arrested Bela Kovacs, the former secretarygeneral of the Smallholders’ Party, in “self defence.” VIENNA BLACKMARKET (Rec. 8.10). _ VIENNA, March 10. The Austrian Ministry of the Interior has denied the stories that a

large Nazi underground movement has been broken up. The Ministry stated those arrested were members of a blackmarket ring, but they included some Nazis.