The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-01
BEHIND THE News
Near,
Soviet Circle
BY DeWIT MACkFN,n
AP Foreign Affairs 80

Hd|EN
bo nafrlng an unforeseen eIev.,.
hour reprleve. Hungary 'y,t
will have joined the ijsr All saoray
lzed countries behind tn ? 'o,'s,
Curtain as the result Of Ron
non-Communistic circles i, VIA.
pest describe as a Red 7o'a,
d'etat that has substilteS sou
munist rule for what was Uo1'
to be a Democracy. @F1g
Thus, with a brief intern,.
the land of the Magyars bi5s ''
to pass under totalitanan ny
again, for it was only with TUE
close of the war that Hunoa liz
capped the clutches of HitIsr, e.
ta%litarian Nazi regime. H. o.
time of the munich confaro Ns
80 the German tuehrer 1.l Il
tablished a firm grip on Hnra,'
as l found during a Euronasns
Just after that, and he 5Tr. '0'
until his own citadel was ,o,,s,. y"
under the Allied onslaught aE
So the Hungarians cot ris
Hitler, but those who vara o.
posed to Communism feI, w.
they had jumped from the trr ~'
pan into the fire, for il wac
Russians who occupied the oo 1s
try. This wasn't Hungarv's t~l
close contact with Commas"
Back in 1919 it had experip1a'i
the terrors of the Bolshevjst roT.
luton under leadership of tbs rs
torious Bella Kun when there y.s..
wholesale executions before y.
Reds finally were downed.
Started Early
Right from the start of tbe 4,
cupation after the late war w.
Communists naturally underton.
to secure the establishment n
Soviet regime. However. in a CON,
eral election the Democ.9..
Stockholders that is. Iandbod.
ers) party won by d handsom.
majority, and a coalition govern.
ment was established. Fereno
Macy, leader of the party bccams
premier and during II months If
office (Which brings us up to te
presently fought for moderate con.
servation. In this he was met with
heavy opposition by the Commu.
mist minority.
Now comes the climax. Premie.
Macy recently went to Switzerlas
ION cation" Yesterday The
Budapest government announced
that he had resigned in SWitzer.
land, and a high Hungarian in.
formant said he had been pushed
from office" in a Communist
coup. Actually Macy apparently
had resigned the day before, but
the news had been withheld in
Budapest.
Macy, according 10 a non-Com-
munist source in the Hungarian
capital, had been accused by the
Russians with being mixed up in
a plot to upset Hungarian de,
mocracy." This accusation is said
to have been based on a depo-
sition by Bella Kovacs, former sec
rotary general of Nays party,
who had been arrested by the Rus
slams February 26. KoVac's arrest
led Washington to send a note to
the Soviet military authorities in
Hungary, declaring that the Com
munists were trying 10 seize
power.
In Washington. Russia, reported
charges of plotting against May
were viewed as part Of a Sovle'
attempt to clinch Communist con.
troll of Hungary before the Red
troops withdraw.
Hungary's bitter political ody''
sev since the wal is similar 10
that of other countries which have
been occupied by Soviet troops
Hungary. being strategicalIy 10
Gated astride the Danube al me
gateway between central Europe
and the Balkans, is OF course one
of the states which Russia IS mo-.
anxious to have within the ooIIe'
zone of domination. Possession De
inc nine points of the law, Hun.
gary's chances of escape o0"
look too good right no"-
n FL EASED