he new Soviet jetliner, TU-104, was a star attraction at the recent Zurich international air show, first to be held since the war. The jetliner will soon bein operation on Soviet rnational air lines. akosi resigns post, replaced by Gero By PETER FRYER BUDAPEST esignation of Matyas Rakosi from the post of first secretary of the Hungarian ing People’s party and his replacement by the soclialist planning expert Erno w were announced here last week. Tn a letter read to a meeting of the party's central committee on his behalf, psi said the reasons for his resignation were his mistakes, which had held back pment of the people’s ve power, and _ his health. particular he said, he at he himself bore the responsibility for two omings. se were the slow pace “habilitation of people who ‘been unjustly accused and W action in overcoming ult of the individual in Bary. le central committe ap- ted four new members to Political bureau — two of 1 party members unjustly a, for several years and 2 released and rehabili- d, the other two former ibers of the political bur- fl these decisions were re- @d to extraordinary party Mngs called at a few hours e in every Budapest plant. important party deci- to be immediately made wn to the membership in ‘Way is a significant point- to the new spirit that is a in Hungary. or ordinary Hungarian pe perhaps the most sen- mal news of all — re- l by Deputy Prime Min- Gero in a 60-minute *ch to the central commit- '— was that the so-called untary” state loan is to be ished from this year on- ds. his-has been greeted with Bens approval by the e Hungarian people, for to now: they have been ex- ted to subscribe the equiv- it of two, three — or even 4 — weeks’ wages a year. arious forms of pressure fe put on them to make se “voluntary subscriptions” ro also suggested in his ech that the strength of the 3 : MATYAS RAKOSI He resigned as secretary of the Hungaraian Working People’s party. Hungarian Army should be reduced by a further 15,000, making a total reduction of 35,000 in the past year. Gero’s. was a remarkable speech filled with proposals for broadening socialist dem- ocracy in Hungary. He warned however, that without social- ist discipline there could be no socialist democracy. He had much to say about the need for freedom of dis- cussion, always provided the unity of the party was not in- fringed. But .besides this self-critical note, Gero drew a spirited contrast between the young socialist state, with all its faults and mistakes and any capitalist state machine. He said the Hungarian state was the people’s own state, which had only existed for seven or eight years. Under the leadership of the party the Hungarian people would improve it and remove its bureaucratic defects. In his letter asking to be relieved of his post as first secretary and of his member- ship in the political bureau, Rakosi, who is 65, told the central committee that his doctors said his health was tco poor to allow him to con- tinue this work, The letter added that, while he re@ognised his own mis- takes as early as 1953, he re- alised after the 20th congress ot the Soviet Communist party that the effect of these mistakes had been greater than he thought. These. mistakes had weak- ened the influence of the party and had held back the development of the creative power of the people. “I want to be the first to put right. these kosi. To remain in his position “would offer a basis for at- tack to all the enemies of Communism which would seriously hamper the entire development of socialism,’ he declared. The central committee unan- imously adopted a resolution accepting Rakosi’s resignation and noting the merits of his past work in the formation of the party, in the struggle against Horthy fascism, in the international labor movement, and in the achievement of power by the working people. The resolution added that he had made mistakes in vio- lating socialist legality and in the sphere of the cult of per- sonality, but that these mis- takes did not obscure his great merits. mistakes,” wrote Ra- Iceland has unity gov t REYKJAVIK Iceland has a new coalition government composed .of the Progressive party, the Social Democratic party and the Communist-led People’s Alliance, with Hermann Jonasson, Progressive party leader, as its new prime minister. Formation of .the new government is the climax to a train of events which began when popular pressure com- pelled the Progressives to bolt their coalition with former Prime Minister Olafur Thors’ Independent party and vote with opposition parties in the Althing for a resolution de- manding withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iceland. (The resolution called for withdrawal of NATO troops but in effect was directed against. the U.S. whose troops operate the big Keflavik base obtained with the connivance of the former rightist coali- tion government.) In elections held last month more than 90 percent of elig- ible voters cast ballots — a record in the country’s 1,000- year parlimentary history — to give the three parties demand- ing withdrawal of foreign troops a majority of the 52 seats in the Althing. No single party, however ob- tained a clear majority. Since then discussions have been proceeding between the Progressive Social Democrats and the People’s Alliance, with the further role of Iceland in NATO the main point. at issue. Despite the ‘opposition of S J. Stefansson, right-wing Social Democrat and former prime minister, Social Demo- crats decided to pursue their talks with the People’s Alli- ance, now concluded with for- metion of the new three-party government. Nkrumah win in Gold Coast ACCRA The Convention People’s party government headed by Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has won re-election. With 102 of the 104 seats de- cided, the Convention People’s party had won 69° and other parties. 33. Even in the Ashanti region where the opposition National Liberation Movement, a party of chiefs and federalists, is strong, with 17 results declared the Convention People’s party hed won eight and the op- position only nine. The result means that the Convention People’s party will now play the major role in framing the new constitu- tion for a more independent Gold Coast, to be called Ghana, the former name _ of the country. Recall of governor demanded By ARTHUB. CLEGG LONDON Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe of Eastern Nigeria is demanding recall of the British governor of Eastern Nigeria. In a cable sent to British Colonial Secretary A. T. Len- nox-Boyd, Azikiwe accuses him of “prejudice and un- werranted antagonism” against his government. This new colonial crisis springs from a clash between the elected government of Eastern Nigeria and the governor, Sir Clement Pleass, over the government’s right to use what banks it wants. The governor has used his overriding powers to stop Azikiwe from using Nigerian banks. Aft present his govern- ment, like other Nigerian governments, banks with the big British banks which con- trol the colony financially. Azikiwe cabled his “humble advice” to Lennox-Boyd, “that you be careful not to mess up the affairs of Eastern Nigeria as is the case in Cyprus and Singapore. “We're ready for - any eventuality and will not stand nonsense from anybody. You have been warned.” : Nigeria is the largest coun- try still under the control of the British Colonial Office. It has a population of 30 million. It has a federal government under a governor-general and three regions, each with their own elected governments and their own power to override the elected governments. Azikiwe’s party, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, has an overwhel- ming majority in the assembly of the Eastern Region. In the last elections for the federal assembly it also gained a majority in both the Eastern ~ and Western Regions and appoints ministers to the federal government from both. The present clash with the governor of the Eastern Re- gion and the colonial office is the third since the National Council first won an election. All these clashes have been over finance, about which the © Nigerians, are very naturally sensitive regarding the power oi their elected parliaments to control finance as the very essence of self-government. July 27, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3 TTA TE Teo TT IE Tey APRA ETT TTT Tr SRP HH sible “ae 7 iia | 2 Wy