GROWING ANXIETY OVER EUROPEAN SITUATION

Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1947, Page 5

GROWING ANXIETY OVER EUROPEAN SITUATION

Received Priday, 8.10 p.m. LOFlDOxx June 18. The situation in Hungary will bthe immediate isstte in a ful. debate o;.. ioreign affairs in the Qommons ou Thursday. Rumania, Bulgaria an. other countries in the Russian sphere o. mituence wiii also be discussed, sayi the Daily Telegraph's parliamentar,. correspondent. The principal G-overn me.at and Cpposition spouesmen a: lineiy to express their gio ./ing an::iet, at the deterioration in the internationa; situation. The debate »will be opene.. by Mr. Anthony Eden who is leading the Opposition yluring Mr.» Churchill 's. ahsence 'and Mr. Bevin may speaii twice. The Daily Herald, in a leader, say.. the known facts leave little douht tha the aim of Soviet p.oliey in Hungary is to ensure hy whatever means tha. effective control of the Hungaria.. u-overnnient shall he in the hancts o , the Htmg9.rian Communist Party, ani the same policy, it is evident, is hein. pursued m other centrai and easten ^uropean countries, even in Austna. " ' ft is clear that the Russians do no tnis.t the friendship of any govemmen'. in whieh Conununists do not play th preponderant role. Thls is a dangero\n, doctrine — for it is a negatfon o. democraey and of national independ ence that a grdat Power should claim the right on whatever ground to y,Ac tate or even influence the compositioi. oi the government of atxother country