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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14
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the Small Holders. On March
10, 1916, 20 We're expelled and
on May II of last year, 700 fas-
cistic officers and former. gem
darmes were arrested. More ar
rests followed, eliminating
with the falling of Bella Kovacs,
general secretary, this past
Feb. 26 on a charge of espion-
age and terrorization.
1t was Kovacs' confession of
a conspiracy against the gov
eminent in which Macy figured
prominently that resulted in
his recent resignation.
IN HIS confession, Bella Ko-
vacs declared:
"I, as secretary general of
the Small Landholders Party
in 1945, already had approved
illegal connections between
the party and the emigre Hun
garian army by giving written
approval to- Sander Raffay to
establish the illegal connec-
tons.
Using my certificate. Raj
fay did direct spy work -.
Ferenc Macy and main
tanned close friendship with
the leaders of the anti-re-
publican conspiracy"
THESE FACTS were con-
firmed this week in a press
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-14

interview with Count Michael
Karolyi, Hungary's democratic
elder statesman, who stated
that "the United States is back
ing the wrong horse" in Hun
gary.
THE United States is back
ing people who want to
: overthrow the actual Hun
garian regime and set up an
ersatx HorthY Dictatorship"
AMERICANS of Hungarian
descent, with the exception of
those having fascist ties, do
not agree with the headlines
in the US. press and interpre-
tations of radio commentators.
The largest Hungarian lam
guage national paper published
in America, a middle-o f-the-
road daily with 10000 cercula-
ton, "Szabadsag'' liberty of
Cleveland, said in an editorial
on June 8:
I'VE are afraid the Ameri-
can press and public opinion
has been duped by Hunga-
rian politicians who are
claiming TO be 'Pro-Ameri-
cam If Americans would
take a closer. look at these
newly branded Pro Ameri-
cans and their p ast they
would surprisingly find that
most Of them shared only
yesterday their wigwams
with Hitler and Sxalasi TAR
rowcross leader of Naxi-oc-
cupied Hungary and that
they sang hymns to the. glory
of the Axis"
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certain foreign government, whose
intelligence service munificently
financed the Hungarian Commu-
nifty.
THE Hungarian Community,
which existed as an open and legal
organization for more than dec
ade, was never a guiding force
of the Hungarian reaction.
1t was only an instrument
through which the Horthyites
maintained contact with personnel
in the government administration
and the army, on the one hand,
and with certain elements abroad,
on the other. And it was such a
subsidiary role that the Hungarian
Community continued to play after
the overthrow of the Horthy re-
gime, when it became illegal.
At first only the Hungarian
Community organization was dis
credited by the discovery of the
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anti-republican plot. The real
ringleaders of the conspiracy took
measures to dissociate from it the
criminals who had found a home
in the Small Landholders' Party.
Bella Kovacs and his accomplices,
believing that not all the threads
of the plot had been discovered,
assumed the offensive.
THE PRESS of the Small Land
holders Party assiduously began
to circulate rumours to the effect
that the Left parties were exag-
gerating the dimensions of the
plot in preparation for an attack
on the leading party in the gov
eminent coalition.
The reactionarY press of Lon
don and New York FASTENED to
the aid of the HorthY clique.
( The New York Times raised the
cry that the Left parties in
tended TO exploit the plot in
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eminent administration and trying
to recover their former positions.
But it was not known that
there was complete co-ordina-
ton between the lawful" and
the underground activities of
the Hungarian reactionaries. nor
that they had wide connections
abroad.
NOW March, 1947) at a public
trial in Budapest it has been dis
closed that certain leading circles
in the Small Landholders' Party
took an active part in the plot.
1t was also revealed that the
conspirators' foreign connections
were not confined to contact be-
tween the Budapest anti-repub-
lican centre and the Horthyites
..interned" in neighbouring Aus
tria, which was maintained with
the knowledge and not without
the assistance of representative
of the British and American mill
tary governments in Austria.
The connections Of the fascist
conspirators were far more ex-
tensive. and. as was proved.
were maintained even through
official channels and the infelli-
gence agencies of certain for.
eign states.
1T is now clear that the con-
spirators, working hand in glove
with their friends abroad, had far
reaching aims. The purpose of the
plot was to destroy the repub-
lican order in Hungary, estab-
lished by a National Assembly
that had been elected by the free
expression of the will Of the Hun
garian people.
The Horthyite plotters had as
their aim the violent overthrow
of Hungary's legitimate govern
ment and the restoration of the
fascist-monarchist regime of Hor-
thy and his clique.
They had prepared beforehand
a shadow counter government,
which was to seize power as soon
as the republic was destroyed. The
conspirators were out to nullify
all the democratic reforms intro
duced in Hungary and unanimous,
ly approved by the people.
In particular, they sought to re-
peal the land reform and return
the land to the landowners.
EVIDENTLY the exposure of
the conspirators came as an I'M
pleasant shock to their friends
abroad, the more so since one of
the major objects of the contem-
plated fascist coup d'etat was to
convert Hungary-in the interests
OF definite foreign circles-into a
convenient stronghold at the ap-
proaches to the U.S.S.R.
Even the leaders of the Small
Landholders' Party have had to
admit that behind its back an anti
republican centre had been OPP
Grating and menacing the exist
ence Of the young Hungarian
democracy.
True, this admission was not
made at once. For some time after
the detection of the first group of
fascist plotters, the people at large
were not aware of the existence
OF a broad Horthy-fascist organi-
cation supported by certain ele-
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BY z. LIPATov

II HE DISCLOSURE Of the anti-repubcan plot in
Hungary revealed that the militant reacionaries in
that country relied only upon network of
fascist organizations but also groups of their followers
in departments and public political
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Hungary $ :sss ; ;s: = ID ,s i. ssss

The following article condensed appeared
in New Times under the heading THE Anti Republican
Plot Hungary Note article appeared
dated March 70. ls47
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trial of the anti-republican plot
tiers, revealed the real state of
affairs. All the practical activities
of the Small Landholders' Party
were directed by Bella Kovacs. In
his hands was concentrated the
operational leadership both of the
party and of its subsidiary Gull
tural and economic organizations,
the chief of which was the Peas
ant Union.
HORTHYISM = the Hungarian
brand of fascism-was bred and
nourished on the anti-Soviet hys-
terra that accompanied the Hun
garian counter-revolution of 1919
20.
Hostility to the Soviet Union
prompted the Horthy clique to of
fer their services to any imperial
ist state that took the lead in the
Crusade against the East"
This is pretty widely known
from the reasonable role played
by the Horthy clique in selling
Hungary's independence to Hitler.
THE Peasant Union was the
principal tool of the plotters in
their subversive activities.
Early in 1s47, the old personnel
of the Peasant Union was re-
placed. The leaders of the Small
Landholders' Party were in a
hurry to remove the old leadership
of the peasant organization in or
der to cover up certain traces.
And these traces led via the Peas
ant Union-whose avowed object
is to protect the general eco
nomic and cultural interests of
the peasantry"-not to the peas
antry, but to former landowners
and banks that subsidized the fas-
cist plot.
Ferenc Macy, a prominent lead
er of the Small Landholders'
Party, was elected chairman of
the Peasant Union.
WHEN Horthy. felt that Hitler's
adventure in the East was DOOM
ed, he sought to adapt himself to
the new situation.
The plan was therefore con-
ceived of preserving the Small
Landholders' Party, which orien-
tated itself towards Great Britain,
as a Horthy reserve. The Horthy
clique resolved to make pre-
tence of driving the Small Land
holders Party underground and
correspondingly to reorganize the
Peasant Union.
After 1913, the Union was con-
verified into an underground or
ganization of Horthy politicians
who adopted London orientation.
WHEN the Allies landed in
Abo1y, Tic A1Oi lily NltQQC uIluCT-
took energetic clandestine meas
ures to establish contact with
British and American circles.
Their emissaries appeared, now in
Turkey, now in Switzerland.
The Horthy politicians reposed
great hopes in Churchill's varia-
ton of a Second front"-an at
tack through the Balkans. For his
part, Churchill hoped to make
wide use of Horthy and his fol-
lowers. He even went out of his
way to praise them.
However, the hopes of Sec
ond front" in the South soon col
lapsed. And with them collapsed
Horthy's hope that the British and
American armies would enter
Hungary. 1t was the Soviet Army
that liberated the country from
the Nazi troops.
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1t had been known before that
Horthy elements were filtering
into certain branches of the gov
eminent administration and trying
to recover their former positions.
But it was not known that
there was complete co-ordina-
tion between the lawful" and
the underground activities of
the Hungarian reacfionaries. nor
that they had wide connections
abroad.
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IN THE first few months fol-
lowing the expulsion of Hitler's
troops and the beginning of the
tSee next page)
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1. Background
Of the crisis

ments within the Small Landhold-
ers' Party.
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order TO establish Communist
Dictatorship" The fog of misin-
formation was designed TO pre-
vent further exposures.
But the very first days of the
trial of the anti-republican plot
tiers, revealed the real state of
affairs. All the practical activities
of the Small Landholders' Party
were directed by Bella Kovacs. In
his hands was concentrated the
operational leadership both of the
party and of its subsidiary Gull
tural and economic organizations,
the chief of which was the Peas
ant Union.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-05
Truman Views t.
 Volcano From Air
lBy Ernest B. Vaccarol

MEXICO City, (P) - President Truman saw Mexico's four-year- old volcano Pericutin, from the air today in quick trip to be fol- lowed at noon by fast drive to Tettihuacan pyramids to the sun and the moon, 28 miles north of here.
 The Sacred Cow left at :07 am EST and landed here at l2:31 pm. EST.
 The Presidents plane was pre- ceded by two planes with newspa- permen and photographers which landed five minutes ahead of his.
 The President saw Paricutin in angry eruption, one of the biggest thrills of his visit to Mexico. The volcano started on a new rampage today a few hours before the Sac red Cow flew at lO,5OO feet around and over the spouting cone. From the cabin of the big ship the U. $. chief executive saw tongues of lava course down the sides of the 2000 foot mound.
 The day was clear and warm with excellent visibility over the scene devastation made by the great spread of lava.
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LONDON, (P)- C. P. Mayhew, undersecretary for foreign affairs, declined in the House of Commons today to make clear Britain's pos itlon on any use of American money to war against leftist guer- rillas in Greece.
 A leftist laborite, w. N. Warbey, asked Mayhew if he would say whether Britain was "unalterably opposed to the use of financial as Sistance for this purpose"
 MayheW replied: Discussions are in progress and the purposes for which the assistance would be given are under discussion"
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-05
Will Handle Strike When 1t COmes'

WASHINGTON, R)-Secretary of Interior Krug, asked about the possibility of a new soft coal strike, told reporters today that he would handle emergencies as they arise.
 We handled one strike a right" Krug added.
 Krug, who is boss of the govern ment-seized mines, talked to news men upon his return from a tour of the Pacific. He did not elabor- ate.
 The United Mine Workers walk ed out twice last year. A spring shutdown ended when the govern ment took over the pits and Krug signed a contract with John l.. Lewis, UNIV chief. Lewis called a truce until April l in an autumn Walkout after he was cited for con- tempt of court
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FLINT, Mich. (P)-Buick divi- sion of General Motors Corp, re- ported today its February output totalled 20,599 cars, bringing to 37,O30 the number of assemblies from Jan. to Feb. 28 this year. Harlow H. Curtice, Buick general manager, said production still is limited by a shortage of materials.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-05
House Approves Assessment Bill

GAP Special Washington Service)
 WASHINGTON, CP) A House public lands subcommittee today approved a bill that would give Alaskan miners until July l, l948, before being required to do assess ment work on their claims.
 Laws requiring Sl00 worth of assessment work on each claim an- nually were waived during the war, but, unless suspended further, would become effective again July l.
 A provision extending the mor- atorium to miners in the continen- tai United States was eliminated from the bill before it was voted upon by the subcommittee.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-05
Nationals Halt The Communist Drive

CHANGCHUN, (PD - The gov ernment commander in Manchuria asserted today the Communist Of fensive against Changchun was smashed, with 5000 enemy dead on the battlefield and the rest in full retreat.
 The commander, Gen Tu Li- Ming, told neWsmen the blow was so severe that his troops could cap ture Harbin, the Communist stronghold, within 10 days. He said, however, he had no orders to drive on north.
 General Tu gave this version of the operations, during which the Communists were known to have pushed to within l2 miles of Changchun, Manchuria's capital and, by Tu's account, the No. objective:
 This was the Communists spring offensive, which had been in the cards for six months.
 Gen. Lin Piao, Communist com mander in Manchuria, had pre- pared 20 divisions, of which about Is were committed.
 Lin told his troops that if they failed to seize the bastion of TehhWe, 52 miles northeast of Changchun, they must return to the north bank of the Sungari river, dividing line of the warning forces.
 General Lin's troops crossed the Sungari and, while part of the force drove south toward Chang chun, the main body was thrown against Tehhwe.
 For seven days, during which the Communists hurled l40,000 troops into the battle of TehhWe, bloody fighting ragged there a scant Is miles houth of Sungari.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-05
LIFTING THE LID AT JUNEAU
Continued From Page One

A-'iitlAlAAth q O4il oSC NDilC tablish a basis Tor modernized Alaska tax program, include net income tax, general property tax, and uniform trade license fees in come.
 The levy calculated a. ten per cent of the federal income tax paid eacA year by individuals, corpo- rationS, banks, etc, provides for withholding and is applicable to all business conducted in the Ter riio"y, including salaries of season. al workers. Individuals with l2 months Alaska residents entitled 10 flat S45 credit.
 The measure also would repeal the present one per cent net in come levy on canner;eS.
 The property tax would be a maximum ten mill levy on all property in the Terr, tory with full refund to cities of taxes col lected within their bounds. IL would repeal the present gross gold tax.
 The effectiveness of the trade li- cense act would be contingent upon the repeal of the present federal 1icapc ,>rny,;ciopc
 Two other new Senate bills by Sen. Gunnard Engebreth R.-3rd) would revise the teachers retire ment program and would establish a hospital regulating agency, re- quired to make Alaska hospitals eligible for federal grants.
 In after hours debate among themselves, all outsiders being barred from the floor, the Senate passes the measure by Sen. E. B. Collins R.-4th) and Sen. o. D. Cochran (O.-2nO for a referen- dunn for the next general election on whether to prohibit the closed shop in Alaska, by vote of 13 to 3.
 Attorney general Rivers issues statement that unless tax mea- sures are passed the only alterna- tixe would be to call for a special legislature session.
 Rivers statement said if the Ter ritory fulfills obligations revenues must be raised. Measures are gen. eral in nature, moderate, non-dis- criminaIory and will spread the tax burden uniformly over all in proportion to the wealth they con- trol and their ability to pay.
 All citizens who desire the Ter ritory to remain solvent and fulfill it's obligations should favor the passage of the measures.
 JUNEAU, March 5, (P) - The
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In his lifetime o. Henry wrote 600 pieces of original fiction.
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line fiShemen. It prohibits the pur- chase of fish from any but boat where all fishermen are licensed.
 Rep. Vim. A. Egan D.-3rO in troduces memorial asking that small charter planes be permitted to engage in service with the least formality possible.
 A memorial is introduced calling the attention of the postmaster general to the poor mail service due to ship wrecks, strikes and poor fyling weather, and asking the mail be dispatched over the Alaska highway to all parts in Alaska excepting the First Divi- sion.
 The Senate passes the bill re- pealing the gross gold tax and sub- Stituting graduated net income tax on mining. The Senate also passes House bill for a blanket pri- mary election.
 The House kills Senate bill ex- empting sales to retailers by Alas ka wholesalers from payment of the one-half per cent veterans tax.
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For Good Printing Call Main 125
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JUNEAU, March 5, (P) - The House passed the bill to fix the assistant attorney generals salary at $5,0OO.
 Rep. Johnson and Rep. Robert Hoopes D.-4th) introduce a me- morial seeking re-appointment of Ziegler to the Territorial Educa- ton board in view of the fact he has been member for the past l4 years.
 The Senate defeated the Walker bill to permit holders of certifi- cates from the school of pharmacy conducted by the armed forced to practice in Alaska without exam ination.
 Sen. Gunnard Engebreth CR.- 3rd introduces a bill to clarify the teachers retirement act, and ex- tends eligibility to include the fac ulty of the University of Alaska, also the office of the commissioner of education.
 Sen. Steve McCutcheon D.-3rd) introduces bill leaving the basic fee for pile driven, also floating traps at $500, but fourth to tenth owned by one firm taxed $200 ad- ditional instead Of the present $100 for traps over ten taxed S40O.
 The House passes the measure to present S25 fishermen's license to include halibut and other hook
The Omaha guide., 1947-03-22
wings Over
Jordan" At City
Aud, May %

Wings Ger Jordan" will be pre-
scented at the City Auditorium in
downtown Omaha, Wednesday.
May % at $50 p. M, 1947. This
affair is being sponsored by the
Community Employment Associ-
alton, Inc.
Ten million Americans have
heard Wings Over Jordan each
Sunday over CHS and have thrilled
to the power and depth of the spir-
ituals which are the heart of Am
erican Negro music.
Sunday Schools arrange their
schedules to hear this program,
and schools, hospitals and church
es have invited the group to make
personal appearances in As states.
They recently completed ten non
tbs overseas with USO Camp
Shows, Inc, playing before soldier
and civilian audiences in France.
Germany, Italy and Belgium. In
every place Wings Over Jordan
has appeared, the audience has
been given a deeper. clearer and
truer picture of the Negro through
the glorious spirituals of faith and
love which are his heritage.
The Omaha guide., 1947-03-22
Omaha Racial and Religious Committee To Hold TpoDay Conference On Tolerance
TaImadge OustedAs Ga. Governor By Supreme Court
AT JOSLYN
MARCH l

AS part of a nationwide effort
to combat prejudice, the Omaha
Committee for Racial and Religious
Understanding will sponsor a two
day institute on tolerance March
81 and April l at Joslyn Memoir
ial.
Speaker will be DR.. Clyde r. Mil
Ter of Teachers College, Columbia
University. DR.. Miller, an author
ity on public opinion and educat-
ion, founded the Institute for Pro-
paganda Analysis and is consult
ant to the League for Fair Play.
He is also consultant to the Spring
field (Mass.) public schools in
their successful and much-public-
lied campaign against intolerance.
The famous springfield Plan" has
been described in numerous book
and articles in national magazines
and was dramatized in a motion
picture, ut Happened in Spring
field"
DR.. Miller will lead discussions
at three sessions during the insti-
tute. All are open to the public.
He will be guest of honor at
luncheons given by the Good Eel
lowship Committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce March 81 and by
the Elementary School Principals
Club April l at Central high school
Co-chairmen of the institute are
Mrs. Herman Cohn and Capt.
Earle Conover, regional director of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews.
The Omaha guide., 1947-03-22
Hillside Church
To Be Rebuilt

The Hillside Presbyterian church
at 30th and Corby streets, was
completely destroyed by fire early
last Sunday morning, March 18th.
The flames were first discovered
in the furnace room of the church
at about 5:45 a. m. by MI. c. Cas-
tie, the janitor.
The flames quickly enveloped
the whole building and by $3.50 a.
m, the church edifice was trans
formed into a pile of charred rub
BILE.
The building was partly covered
by insurance and will be rebuilt,
again, only on a more modern and
up-to-date basis.
In the meantime the congregat-
ion will worship at Elder Fletcher
Bryant's Church, Sharon Seventh
Day Adventist, located at 2760
Lake Street.
The adjoining parsonage was
partly destroyed, the roof was
badly damaged and interior and
furniture watersoaked.
The congregation of Hillside had
just called the Rev. Charles E.
Tyler of Tuscaloosa, Ala, to pastor
the church. He was to arrive some
The Omaha guide., 1947-03-22
Barring of Negro
NeWsrnen
Attacked

New York. March 1.-THE Ma
tional Board of Directors of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People to-
day urged all possible corrective
action in the barring of Louis
Lautier, Washington Bureau chief
for the Negro Newspaper Publish
ers' Association and special cor
respondent for the Atlanta Daily
World, from the Senate press gal
lery. Walter White, NAACP exc
cutive secretary, in announcing
the Boards action, declared that
the Association had already made
its stand known to members of the
Senate Rules Committee in stiffly
worded kilograms to each member
of the Committee. The NAACP
protests clearly indicated the be-
lief that Mr.. Lautier had been
barred from the press section
solely on the basis of race.
Griffing Bancroft, of the Chicago
Sun, who was the only member of
the SIdnQlng committee or CORES
pondents to vote in favor of Mr..
Lautier, was warmly compliment
ed on his lone stand by the NAACP
executive. I'VE most warmly
thank and congratulate you on the
stand you took with respect to the
admission of Louis Lautier to the
Senate Press Gallery. We greatly
admire you for your courage in
standing up against the inexcus-
able position Of the other members
of the committee, wrote White, in
a letter to the Chicago newsman.
The Washington Bureau this
week made a direct appeal to JOS
eph w. Martin Jr., Speaker of the
House of Representatives and Sen