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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1947, Page 5

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Press Assn.

Hungatian Ministers Abroad To Be "Screened"

By Telegraph.

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Received Wednesday, &.3Q a.m. BUDAPEST, june 3. The Hunga'rian Ministers at Washington, London, Berne and Paris have been ordered to return to Budapest immediately, The Smallholders' Party exeeutive has decided that all members of the party are to be "screened" by a committee of five to eliminate any hampering of the progress of collaboration within the framework of the Coalition. . An.Allied diplomatie. so.uree conffrmed that the 50-year-ald Qathoiic priest, Father Bela Varga, the Speaker of the House, who fled from Hungary yesterday, erossed fche Russian zone of Austria and was in a "safe plaee," Father Varga, who v/as regarded in influence as «he seeond man in the Government, fled to avoid Communist arrest. Approach to Rtissia The British Government, as a result of further reports it has received from its political representacive in Budanest on M. Ferenc Nagy's resignation as Premier, may consuit witn the United States on che question of British and Ameriean intervention with Russia on the question of the Hungarian political developments, says Reuter's diplo-i matic correspondent. Tne Communist leader, M. Matyas Rakosi, in a speech in Budapest, declared that; he had telephoned M. . Nagy in Switzerland after the Rusaians had accused him of treason, and asked, him to return for trial, but M. Nagy had refused.