Evening star., 1947-06-15
Russia Again Rejects
u. ). Plea 10 Probe
Hungarian Affairs
Commander in Budapest
Charges Effort TO Back
Persons Involved in Plot
ALL DANUBIAN VALLEY Is Soviet
Goal, Constantine Brown says.
Page C-1.
Macy REACHES New York, Sure
u. N. Will Probe Hungarys
Troubles. Page AS.
By The Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Sunday, June Is
The Russian commander in
Budapest today refused, for the
third time, an American proposal
for a tripartite investigation OF
Hungarian internal affairs.
The commander, 1t. Gen. V. P
Sviridov, charged that the Amerl'
can proposal contained attempt:
under the disguise of defense o.
Hungarian democracy" to suppor'
persons who were involved In plo1
against the republic.
Note Sent to U. S. General.
A note refusing the investigation
proposal which was sent to Brig
Gen. George H. Weems, commando
of the United States Military Com
mission in Hungary, added:
/. The American charge thai
Communists had assumed contro
in Hungary and that the@ will ol
the people who had voted for the
Stockholders Party had thus beer
nullified was an "unfounded fiction
2. The Hungarian political crisis
was solved ''in strict conformity
with constitutional procedure.
3. The Americans. as members OF
the Allied Control Council for Hun
gary, have no right to documents
acquired by Soviet occupation forces
in Hungary.
4. The Russians have not acted
unilaterally in Hungary. and there
has been no violation of the Yalta
agreements and no Soviet inter-
ference in Hungarian affairs.
S. A thpee-power hearing would
be "a rude interference in Hun
garian affairs, which is not permis-
sible."
Refers to Macy.
Apparently referring to former
Premier Ferenc Macy, who has ar
rived in the United States, Gen.
Sviridov told Gen. Weems: After
had acquainted myself with your
letter, I could not help but notice in
it attempts under the disguise OF
defense of Hungarian democracy to
render support to separate individ-
uals who, having entangled them
selves with conspirators, fed abroad
from their people"
Mr.. Macy resigned while on vaca-
ton in Switzerland shortly after the
Russians said they had documents
duplicating him and former speak
er of the house Bella Varga in plot
against the republic.
Gen. Sviridov said the documents
and dispositions the Russians have
announced they took from Bella Ko-
vacs, former secretary general of
the Smallholders Party, could not
be handed over to the American
representative on the Allied Control
Council because they had mo rela-
ton whatsoever to the activities of
the Allied Control Commission"
Gen. Sviridov said he was not, in
this refusal, violating Allied con-
troll statutes which provide copies of
documents which may
interest" the United States or Brit
ish representatives be supplied to
them.
Moreover, Gen. Sviridov said, he
already had conveyed that informa-
tion to Gen. Weems in a letter dated
June 8.
Third Refusal of Plea.
The Russian reply was the third
refusal of an American proposal for
a tripartite inquiry into Hungarian
political events, the most recent of
which established apparent Com
munist dictatorship in the country.
The previous American requests
for three-power investigation were
made on March 5 and March IT,
shortly after the Communists first
announced they had discovered a
plot against the republic
An authoritative American infor-
mant said today the State Depart
ment may send another note to
Russia summing up and protesting
strongly alleged unilateral and
arbitrary actions by Soviet elements
of the Allied Control Commission for
Hungary.
The informant said the State
Department had asked specific
examples Of misuse" of the COM
and instances of American
rights being denied. American Of
flcials said the development was an
apparent reversal of a policy which
(See HUNGARY, Page -8.)