World news roundup on Hungary

Soviet Union stages country-wide
campaign for Hungarian relief

MOSCOW

A nation-wide campaign of help for the Hungarian people is being conducted right
across the Soviet Union. All sorts of plants and enterprises are providing food, raw
materials and other goods, over and above what the Soviet government has already

pledged itself to send.

In Odessa the workers of the Odessa Flour Mill sent 2,800 tons of flour te Hun.

gary, while the local tea-pack-
ing factory has sent a railway
wagonload of tea.

Over 2,000 wagons with food
and building materials for
Hungary passed through Lvov
railway station tast weekend.
Special'controls have been set
up to ensure priority for all
trains for Hungary.

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EDINBURGH

Seottish miners have decid-
ed to send a delegation to Hun-
gary immediately — if it can
be arranged — to investigate
conditions and causes of the
uprising.

A delegate conference at
Edinburg approved this unan-
imously — but also passed an
addendum by 61 votes to 56,
condemning “the aggression of
the Soviet Ynion in Hungary.”
There were several absten-
tions.

An executive motion to give
$2,800 for relief of distress and
suffering was also carried; and
the conference called on the
British Trades Union Congress
to launch a similar fund for
the victims of Anglo-French
aggression in Egypt.

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BERLIN

Vorwaets, official paper of
the West German Social Dem-
ocratie party, has called for a
cool head in judging events in
Hungary, and underlines that
there was a fascist danger.

“Nagy was without authori-
ty, the army refused to obey
him. His desperate attempt—
disregarding political realities
— to appease the insurgent
movement by new and increas-
ingly far-reaching concessions
was bound to fail,” it states.

“Tt was bound to fail be-
eause the insurgents were be-
ing excited to extremism un-
der the influence of reaction-
ary and fascist elements which
had come to the surface.”

Vorwaerts stresses that any-
body using the occasion to
press for an accelerated re-
armament drive in West Ger-
many, for the restoration of
the iron curtain, and for a
return to cold war methods
will be committing a crime
against the German people.

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BONN

The one “hope” of Hungary
and Europe is “a free Germany
ready and willing to repel the
Bolshevik danger by any
means.”

That is the view of Cardinal
Mindszenty, Hungarian Rom-
an Cathtvlic primate, in an in-
terview published in the' Bonn
newspaper General Anzeiger.

Mindszenty is “taking ref-
uge” in the US. legation in
Budapest.

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PRAGUE
The Hungarian Army is to

be reorganized round a hard
core of the majority of officers
and soldiers who have proved
their loyalty during these
critical days.

This was Stated by Hungar-
ian Deputy Premier Ferenc
Muennich last week in an in-
terview with the Czechoslovak
News Agency.

“New principles will be laid
down for this organization by
the government to ensure that
the army and security forces
defend the true interests of
Hungarian workers and peas-
ants.

“They must also protect the
socialist achievements -of the
Hungarian people.”

Fascism in Hungary
would lead to war

PRAGUE

In a comment on the recent events in Hungary, Prace,
trade union daily, says, “The developments in Hungary
and in Egypt have only one common denominator—the
same social forces that launched themselves on the Hun-
garian state from inside, attacked Egypt from outside.”

“The world must not forget,”
Prace writes, “that the roots
of the Second World War were
exactly in this support of the
imperialists given to Franco’s
counter-revolution in Spain, to
the seizing of power by the
fascists in Germany.”

Prace notes that at that time,
too, the imperialists were em-
ploying such terms as “free-
dom, democracy, self-determ-
ination of nations, non-inter-
ference.”

“With these concepts they
misled the people. Under this
camouflage they made it pos-
sible for all the fascist systems
to get a firm hold of power,
first to subjugate the people
of their own countries and
then to start expansion —
against the Soviet Union.

“We know what was the out-
come of all that. There were
50 million dead and incalcul-
able values were destroyed.

“Now they are again trying
to carry out a similar man-
oeuvre.

‘It would be suitable for
them if fascism arose in Hun-
gary. Hungary would be suit-
able for them as another
springboard against the Soviet
Union, as a tool with which
they would attempt to destroy
the unity of the socialist coun-
tries, as a weapon with which
they would menace the pro-
gress towards socialism in the
neighboring countries.

“It is, of course, quite clear
what would have been the
outcome of the events in Hun-
gary if the  class-conscious
leaders of the Hungarian work-
ing class had not stepped for-
ward and set up a government
that called Soviet units for
help.

“We all have much too ter-
rible experiences with fascism
to be able to look idly at its
revival in our neighborhood.
No phrases of the Western im-
perialists will mislead us.

“If they support fascism in

Hungary, fascism. aimed
against us, against world peace,
then in -this case, we support
the Hungarian working class,
we support and strengthen
those forces in Hungary that
fight against fascism, the forces
of progress and peace.

“We shall not allow true
democracy and true freedom
to be destroyed, we shall not
allow conditions to be creat-
ed for such a development as
that before the Second World
War when the majority of
people watched the growth of
fascism in the world with hor-
ror but without taking action.
The Soviet Union did not look
passively at it. For this it
deserves thanks.”

Cardenas breaks silence to wort
against threat to Mexican libertY

MEXICO CITY

Te Mexican government is

_ beginning to tilt to the right

again, but this time more
dangerously. Even Mexico’s
great liberal, the taciturn ex-
President Lazaro Cardenas,
who is known as “The Sphinx
of Jiquilpan” (his home town)
has expressed alarm.

The very fact that Car-
denas has made a public state-
ment at.all is news: for 16
years (his term of office end-
ed in 1940) he has refused to
made his views public and has,
as far as is known, kept free
of politics.

Cardenas, famous for car-
rying out the expropriation of
foreign oil companies, but

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shelled and bombed ruins of Port Said where petweer a
7,000 and 12,000 Egyptians were killed and wounded. gs

equally renowned for his large-
scale land reform . program
benefitting thousands of land-
less peasants, spoke calmly to
his audience of farmers.

Yet his words sounded like
the rumbling of national dis-
content: “too ...many farm-
ers are without land and too
much land is without farm-

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ers.

(More than 300,000 Mexican
peasants, who either have no
credit to work their lands or
have no lands at all, have
been pushed by poverty to
work as underpaid farm hands
in the U.S.)

Cardenas then alluded to
legislation that has been on the
statute books for several years

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