BRITAIN GRAVELY CONCERNED OVER HUNGARY

Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN GRAVELY CONCERNED OVER HUNGARY

Received Monday, 7 p.m. liO±ND0jM, ttune 8. Whitehall is Watcmng v/ith graVe concern the growing livcAou bet Areen oiie uint-u btafcoss and xvUiSi.a in Oencral and South.ascern Durope, says t>1xdiplomatic correspondent of the Sunday Times. The situation has deteriorated so severeiy in the pa'st few weeks that an internationax cnsis seenxs to be toomxng. Russia, it is believed, will reject tlie American request for a joint inquiry in , to happcnings in llungary. Her rcjocL ron of tlie British request for eopies ot tlxe aceusatioii against'Alr. Nagy, the former Prime H inister, marks Jier determination to go ahead with the process of eoniiuuiuKing Hungary. The mere fact tliat thev were named in Mr. Bela Kovac's aileged confession caused niany leaders of tlie Smailholders ' Partv, who are accused uios'tlv of contacts with people with anti-Communist views, to tlee to escape arrest and dojiortation to Russia. This greatlv helped tlie Co nim unist couji. British information from Hungary amply continns the reports which have aroused Anierican resentment, although, in tlie absence of Russian explanations, London is disposed to lwove more cautnousK. Britain. however, is willing to participate in any inquiry, such as that mggested by Amorica. "Nobody can witlulraw the right from us or object to our intention to develop the closest eooperation with the Soviet Union," said the new Prime Minister (Mr. Lejos Dinnyes) in an interview. Mr. Dinnyes- said the new national elections would not talce place until atter the, harvest, about September, and there woukl be separate party lists. Discussing the Hungarian Ministers •abroad who had lef! their posts, he said the representative in Ankara took away the Legation cash. He said that Mr. Nagv, after the eJec tions in November, 1945, was intoxicatnd with the effects of victory and be came inaecessible to members of the Smallholders ' Party and even to Ministers. "We are not kidnappers, so we sent baclc his little son in the car Mr. Stalin had g'iven Mr. Nagy. " Mr. Dinnyes added tliat Hungary wanted to collaborate with Britain, the United States, and "lirst of all," with Russia. Tn Budapest the police have arrested at least 70 persons siiice tlie Hungarian Ministry of the Interior reopened the investigations into tlre eo'nspiracy aileged by Mr. Bela Kovacs, the former secretal'V of the Smalhholders' Party.