Evening star., 1947-09-01
Hungary Credits Coalition Led
By Reds With $3.50 Of Ballots;
Communist Allies Admit Fraud
Anti-Moscow Porty
Is Second Highest
Among 10 Groups
BY the Assooioied Press

BY the Associates PFeSs
BUDAPEST, Sept. /. - The
Hungarian Foreign Office assert
ed late today that the Commu-
mist party had polled 1882 ,597 of
the total of 4,993,6 ,683 counted
votes-a result which even the
Communists allies said was
achieved by fraud. The returns
were said to be virtually COM
plete.
The Information Ministry hao
announced earlier that the Com
munists, plus the three parties in
the coalition which they dominate
the Social Democrats, Stockholders
ard National Peasants, had polled
63 per cent of the ballots cast yes
terGay for a new Parliament.
Although an Information Min
istry spokesman had said at that
time no later vote totals would be
announced because "the people are
interested only in percentages" the
Foreign Chce did give the totals, On
their face these figures bore out the
percentage of 63 for the coalition.
Larger Vote Cast.
The Foreign Office said the Dem
ocratic Peoples Party, an anti
Communist group headed by 1stvan
Baxankovics, a devout Catholic, was
second with 8O4 $50 votes. The
Smallholders. which rolled ST per
cent of the votes in the last election,
was third with 757,Oo2, followed by
the Democrat Party with 732.ffo
and the Hungarian Independent
Party with 1888.
The announced vote was larger
then the 4,717256 bailocs cas- in the
last election. when the Communists
were not in power.
The Information Ministry, on the
basis of l.339,951 votes in the gov
ernnent count. asserted that the
Communists polled "a per cent; the
Social Democrats, l6 the Small
holders, Is and the National Peas
ants, 8 per cent The opposition
Democratic Peoples Party was cred
tied with 20 per cent.
Even the COMMUNISTS allies, the
Social Democrats, accused the Com
munists of obtaining their vote by
fraud. Other opposition parties
said the Communists. who controlled
virtually all trucks and other means
OF travel, had cast between 100000
and 100000 false votes the
Communists replied in kind, accus-
ing opposition parties of plural vot-
ing.
Second Vote Since War.
It was the second Hungarian
election since the war. The small
holder polled ST per cent OF the
last vote, but their regime was over
thrown in a Communist coup during
the summer. Even the most con-
servative politicians had anticipated
a Communist victory yesterday ano
many predicted a more rigid police
liquidation of opposition after the
election formality was over
q, In some villages, there was talk
of civil war Ceven though the Rus
sian army still occupied much OF
Hungary.
The Social Democrat Newspaper
Vilagossagh said guardedly that
party leaders met throughout the
night discussing ABUSES in connec-
ton with blue slips" which entltle
a person to vote in a place other
than his legal residence.
The Communist newspaper Sza-
badsag said that, except for Just
a few provocative incidents" the
elections were entirely clean" The
article purported to quote the Rev,
Istvan Balogh, Catholic leader OF
the independent Hungarian Demo-
cratic Party, which was given IL
per cent of the last government
count, as asserting I'VE can nave
no complaints whatsoever" r."
Minister of Justice Istan Rles,
longtime pro-Communist member
of the Social Democrats, was re-
ported to have resigned in protest
to conduct of the elections. Mem
bers Of the Hungarian 1ndepend-
ence Party said they had been in
formed of his action by Social DEM
ocrats and that Mr.. RieS had COM
mented he could no longer CO.
operate with such crowd as the
Communists. The Communists dld
not comment.
The whole government is sup
posed to resign before September
10. wnen a new cabinet is to be
formed
Abuse Declared Slight.
A Ministry of Information state
ment reported that "on the day o1
the election, there were a few at
tempts to abuse in connection with
the voting. The police interveneo
in each case and took necessary
steps"
Communist and Social Democratic
leaders were reported reliably to
have spent last night talking ovel
posts in the new government to bt
made public September 10.
The election will decide the dis
tribution of seats in the Parllamcn'
to meet September IS. Each party
viii get one seat for every l4,00(
votes.
The Communist Party is led by
Deputy Premier Matyas Rakosl
the Social Democrats by Deputy
Premier Arpad Szakasits and tht
Hungarian independence Party by
Zoltan Pfeiffer, one-time Small
holders leader.
Before the balloting. some OBJ
servers had pronounced the Com
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