LEFT COUPS IN EAST EUROPE CO FURTHER

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1947, Page 5

LEFT COUPS IN EAST EUROPE CO FURTHER

LONDON, June 26. '

The official account of the contents of the British Note delivered in Bucharest yesterday, protesting against the recent wave of political arrests in Rumania, stated that the Note described the conditions under which such prisoners were detained as a “denial of the human rights specifically guaranteed under the peace treaty”. The Note declared that a campaign of intimidation had caused untold suffering among the prisoners and their families. These methods were reminiscent of those of the German secret police. The Prime Minister of Hungary, M. Dinnyes, told newspapermen that the Hungarian Government parties would go to the elections* on a single list. The Communist proposal that the Government parties should present themselves as a single democratic' bloc within which the people should be permitted to vote for any of the four parties would be considered. He said the Government’s aim was to create a peaceful atmosphere. However, The Times Budapest correspondent says: The National Assembly on June 25 had anything tut a peaceful atmosphere. The Opposition had spent a large part of