EUROPEAN MINORITY PROBLEMS

Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1946, Page 5

EUROPEAN MINORITY PROBLEMS

Press Assn.

OEO REPiY T&HUN6ARIAN REQtlESI FOR 1NQIIIRY

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Received Friday-, 12.15 p.m. PARIS, August 15. Referring to Hungary's finances, M. Jan Masaryk (Czechoslovakia) , at the Paris Conference, said that5 instead of putting her house in order after the war, she had embarked on the most complete and deliberate inftation in history. It was easier to appeal to others and thank one's benefactors than to work with the sweat of one's brow. ' ' Without referring directly to the request of the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Dr. Gyongyosy, for the conference to have a commission of inquiry on the spot, in an effort to solve Hungary's problems with Rumanian and Czechoslovakia, M. Masaryk offered the conference "every opportunity to see for yourselves that we wish to proceed in an open and democratic manner."

M. Masaryk concluded that if anybody considered his statement was based on hatred or lack of understanding they were mistaken. No country wanted peace more ardently than Czechoslovakia. M. Kisselev (White Russia) said that despite Hungary sending seventeen divisions to the SovietGerman front and also committing many odious crimes, White Russia felt that the conference should not ory to make a peace of vengeance. It must not forget that Hungary did change sides. Mr. J. F. Byrnes (United States),

after expressing regret over the . misrepresentations, discussed the treaty clauses covering restoration and compensation for Allied property lost. or damaged during the. war. He argued? that it was wrong to describe the- Allied claim as onerous when it involved nothing like the great sums Russia was exacting in reparations. "I repudiate the Russian suggestion that the United States desires to exploit enerny countries. The United States on the other hand cannot be indifferent to treaties and arrangements distorting economic relations to the prejudice of the great majority of nations.