Evening star., 1947-07-04
|ExiIed Officials Seek
Peasant Party Union
In Eastern Europe
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.

Ferenc Macy, ousted Hungarian
premier. and DR.. G. M. Dimitroy
leader of the Bulgarian Peasant
Party, have issued a call from
Washington for a union of the
democratic peasant parties OF East
ern Europe.
The exiled democrats read their
manifesto at press conference
here yesterday. 1t invoked the in
dependence spirit of the American
Fourth of July, and set its eventual
aim as the creation of a United
States of Europe.
Associating themselves with the
document were the exiled leaders
of Yugoslavia's two peasant parties,
They are DR.. Vladko-M -Matchek, for
mer Yugoslav vice premier and
president to the Croatian Peasant
Party, who announced in telegram
from Paris that he would, sign the
manifesto, and DR.. Milan Gavri-
lovitch, president of the Serbian
Peasant Party, who sent a similar
message from London.
Dictatorship by Force"
Recent events in our countries"
the peasant leaders wrote, have
clearly proved that the so-called
Eastern Democracy is but die
tatorship of Communist minorities
imposed by foreign military force"
The document did not name
Soviet Russia. 1t continued. how
ever, to the effect that this force"
seeks ito perpetuate its authority
by means of civil strife and terror
ism, thus adding new distinctions
to the already accumulated ruins
I'VE, and not the present sub
servient dictators who were trained
by foreign force and are imposed
on our nations, are the real repre-
sentatives of the people," Mr.. Macy
and DR.. Dimitrov wrote.
I'VE appeal to the democratic
peasant parties of other countries
$50 to join with us in the creation
OF a democratic international peas
ant union and the eventual realiza-
ton of the United States OF Europe,
with the ultimate aim of establishing
worldwide democratic unity"
The peasant leaders told reporters
the State Department had been in
formed OF the move, but that its re-
action was noncommittal. 1t was
learned, however, that department
officials are inclined to take the de-
velopment seriously and to view it
with favor.
Talk to Be Broadcast.
The department foreign radio
service, the Voice of America" i'm
mediately prepared to broadcast de-
tails of the manifesto to Eastern
Europe.
DR.. Dimitrov said until the peas
ant union movement can be devel-
oped in the East European countries
themselves, it will have to operate
principally from the outside. Some
exlled peasant leaders, he added.
however have close contacts with
their followers at home.
Mr.. Macy said he had so far been
unable to establish contact with his
former colleagues in Hungary. The
plan, he said, is to set up commit
tees Of peasant leaders for each ma
ton of Europe, which can then be
combined into working committee
for the international union.
An immediate purpose of the
group, DR.. Dimitrov said, is to appeal
on behalf of their people to the
United Nations. 1t was hoped, he
said, that persons who have escaped
from Hungary and Bulgaria since
the Communist unmasked their in
tentions in those countries could be
brought here to testify at the United
Nations General Assembly next fall.
They would testify, he said, that
Russia has interfered in the internal
affairs of Hungary and Bulgaria,
and that this interference consti-
tutes threat to the peace as de-
fined in the u, N. Charter,