U.S. PROTEST TO RUSSIA

Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1947, Page 5

U.S. PROTEST TO RUSSIA

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Engineering Commnnist Coup InHungary

By Telggrapl

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•Keeeived Monday, 8.-20 p.m,NEW YOKK, June' '2. Piplomatic sourees today re port-ed th.at the IJn.ted States jt . pueparing to protest to Kussia against what apparently amounts. .o a Russian seizure of Hungarian ierritory, says the Herald-Tri uune's Washington •.correspondent. Oue officml said .- that Ameriea, possibly ' jointly ' with. Britain coukl be expected to aceuse Kus sia of eng.ueering a Communist coup in Budapest and of violating •he armisfice ternis and the Yalta Agreement which was supposed to guarantee the political freedom o.. formor eneniy States. It is unlikely that -Ameriea will ent off akl to the Hungarians.since !t is po'nted out that the major lty of Hungary's 9,000,000 people are anti-Communist, aird it would be. unjust, that they should be made to suffer.

Congressional comment on the •'leveIopiri.ei.it is expected on Tuesday when the Senate will considei Ihe peace treaty with ' Hungarj and other Clcrrnan satellites. - Building Up Case Against Nagy The papers are pra'etically unanimous lv building up a case against th. t'or m er Premier, Mr. Nagy, says th. Budapest,' correspondent of the As sociated Press. All the Sundav news [rapers printed what they said wer. excerpts from depositions implicatin. Mr. Nagy in a recent alleged plot t overthrow the Government. Some of Alr. Nagy's friends stat, that qnless he lceeps to his reporteo agreement not to talk to the YV.esteri: Powers about what has been going oi in ITungary, the Commnnists are likel, to trv liim in alisentia on a charge o. treason. Further purgcs of Mr. Nagy's Kmall holders ' Party are expected, and thert are. signs that the So.cial Democrats wili also "c.Ieanse" their ranks. Official quarters in London considei it is clear that the Hungarian crisis t; a further stage in the .Communist al tempt to seize powerfin Hungary, say> Renter's diploinatic correspondent. This .is the first official - comment becnuse, until today, the Eoreign Onice had re .-eived no reports from Budapest.