Communist Attempt To Control Country

Northern Advocate, 2 June 1947, Page 5

Communist Attempt To Control Country

Hungarian Crisis

(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. Official quarters in London consider it clear that the Hungarian crisis is a further stage in the Communist- attempt to seize power in Hungary, says Reuters diplomatic correspondent.

This is the first official comment because until today the Foreign Office received no reports from Budapest. It is considered that the position of the former Prime Minister (M. Nagy) will be similar to General Nicolae Radescu, Rumanian Premier from December, 1944, to March, 1945, who, when charged with failure to maintain order in the rear of the Red Army, iled to .Cyprus and is now living in exile.

. It is announced that the Minister of War (M. Lajos Dinnytes, aged 46) has been chosen Prjme Minister in .succession to M. Nagy, who resigned while in Switzerland after hearing of Russian charges against him. The Budapest papers are practically unanimously building up a case against the ex-Premier, says the Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press. All the Sunday newspapers printed what they said were excerpts from depositions implicating Nagy in the recent alleged plot to overthrow the Government.

MORE PURGES

Some of Nagy’s friends state that unless he kept to his reported agreement net to talk to the Western Powers about what has been going on in Hungary, the Communists are likely to try him in absentia on a charge of treason.

Further purges of Nagy’s Smallholders' Party are expected and there are signs that the Social Democrats will also “cleanse” its ranks.

In Moscow today the Tass Agency said the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior received “data transforming into concrete charges,” the suspicion against Nagy cf undermining Hungarian democracy.

AMERICAN VIEW

The United States views the Hungarian crisis as the death of a young democracy and the birth of a Communist police state on the pattern oi other Soviet satellite Governments in East Europe, says the United Press. State Department officials said the Soviet charges of conspiracy against M. Nagy and two other Smallholders' Party officials apparently signalled the end of , the last leaders who had held out against the Communists.