REVIEW OF BUDAPEST NEWSPAPERS, 19 DECEMBER 1951 - 8 JANUARY 1952

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 522
• Publication Date: February 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Hungary
Economic; Political; Sociological
Daily, weekly ewapapers
Budapest
19 Dec 1951
Hungarian
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INFORMATION 1951- 1952
DATE DIST. a/ I.b 1952
NO. OF PAGES 3
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REPORT NO.
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The following revrev i; na;P,d an the 19 pecemb~r 1951 8 Januar
of t--,e Budapest ne
issues v I4,rer:: Szsbad Nep. t;ep;za? a; vile
Nemzet, Fuggetlen Ma Y 1952
if uea g'ar..rezeg Eossag Magyar
J g, UJ Ember, ana r1 T g, =zh5?isag:~rr,?:; Szabad Szo, Szebad
Ecc amic
Agitation for pla, during the period un,.ic-r " : s ` doclnsu: _
of theirspace pert O, ieedrn r)rom theme
n rhr' r da:_, newspapers devoted
importance. Wlrht: ?Prs`s Trued ., 1' ?? r Pc.. the bulk
atta poor uork dic^ip i1~ ::e rrG:n trees? a seccndery one ~1c natters in
ck on , a concerted
atives r, tc:'s Srae~
(henceforth cooPernt:: ue ed'`e "`.5_Ir The producers'
ra cooper-
see AekosL's a:eech 10104!, haeanF :::_ lace d stricture (also ""I" alsic
uus r
at is. tery qua1y m a 1scKan indu1 attitude,
loafin minesg
werejob and
also sharply crIt;-lze ? P'-=d'?cte In ndustry and the
The parliament debated and Practically as Sub-f mitted by the Ministemect deparce, itas
budget of each
c~.if?L .Post f.llowed a pattern. The
and his report was followed by the pd h;; a government spokesm
NO significant figures, with tOe r.xce?e+n ^` h^ ifbr rc'amber of the Parliament the speeches, as reported b pt' cns n;;;ed below, were
tation of achievements ed t2 the press w?r= tar ely yeti.:`- ?uoihed, and
elds of rtments in es t to the preaen-
1951. Occasionally the second Speaker r the deparomnended a uestionsdurina
g
detail Of the departmental exp nominal
enditures and the change was approved and inr?or-
porated in the budget on the spot.
The Finance, Inin exception
connection with twhlc!:a'tern was the budget of the Ministry of
expenditures total 42,480,970 ptCh the f slandrrevenuesas published: national
shoving a surplus of 28f3, 757,0
'X) forin' ')0 fo:r_nts; 21 ,2 arc ,769, evenu0 forints, 12
consist of turnover taxes (in the :950 budget the -sntrowatae revenues will
pproximately 64
Newspapers as :ndicated.
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percent); 15.5 billion forints were appropriated for investments; and reven-
ues from the profits of state enterprises are budgeted at 5.5 billion forints.
It was also brought out that the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture will be
more than double the 1951 appropriation and that over 2 billion forints were
appropriated for metallurgy and the machine manufacturing industry. However,
it was not stated whether the latter figure is included in the 15.5-billion-
forint investment program.
Following closely on the R?:der movement, the Deak movement, named after
Janos Deak, a foreman in the MALAG (Iron and Steel Works of the Hungarian
State Railroads), was inaugi.rated during the last week of the year. The aim
of the movement is to organize shop foremen for greater strictness in dealing
with laxity and slipshod work in the plants.
28 Decembe r, Mat sa Rakor: delivered a spee-. tr. Budapest dealing with
cooperatives. highlights of his speech are: (1) he
recommended a slowdown in the cille tivization of agriculture and advised
against the use of threats in driv?ng tr.e independent peasants into coopera-
tives; (2) he called for strict meazuras against loafers in the cooperatives
and recommended that per-capita rations in the cooperatives should be discon-
tinued and that all profits Le d1ctrib.;ted on the basis of work units alone.
The 28 December issue of Nepszave Lives the following date on coopera-
tives: From January 1950 to December 1;51, the number of cooperatives
increased from 46,006 to 350,000, tie area cultivated by cooperatives from
250,000 to 1,500,000 cadestral yckes, the number of tractors from 3,500 to
8,500, and the value of property owned by tooperathver? by 1,000 percent. The
value of work units earned by cooperative members increased from 17.50 forints
to 25.24 forints per unit during 19 1.
In the 6 January issue of Nepszava a ions article deals with Hungary's
foreign trade objectives in 1952. !hiring 1952, Hungary's aims are to import
mostly raw and semifinished natecie.ls and to increase exports of finished prod-
ucts, primarily machinery. Trade with other orbit countries, particularly
with the USSR, will be stepted ep and trade wtth the Lest will be continued.
The quality of export prraucts has Lctu i:saupoir,t:ar throughout 1951, end
numerous large machines .i=re re;ect,J by foreign enterprises because of defects
and poor workmanship. Not reason, quality of export goods must be
improved cone:derebly.
The 1,200-meter-long I?~?,,af,ldvar bridge was opened for railroad and high-
way traffic on 20 December. the bridge 1s 17 k:lometers from Sztalinvaros
(Dunapentele) and will form an -:,tremor- important economic and military link
between the Great Plain and the crops-Danubian: region.
Political
Attacks on ihe U5 were the i:ro_,rtar;t ;,,e ;r the
lit
po
ical field
continuing the trend of the latter pert r.f I:ovember 1951 50X1-HUM
Vyshlnskiy's anti-U:> speeches at the UN meeting in Paris were given sev-
eral pages in nearly all issues of -tie leedir new papers. .n accompanying
vehement comments.
The propaganda t-chraque of quetin' criticizing various 50X1-HUM.
aspects of American cy or life coot treed at an increased
rate. A few typical excerpts fellow. Ccrrupti:?n t1- 'e US administration
has reached record proportions ..,. The Cctton 'fredeJournal writes: 'Immoral-
ity and corruption start from the t::p and spread downward.' According to the
New York Times, Congress can be bribed regardless of party uffl.liation ....
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Every member of Congress is in someone's pocket." (Szabad Nep, 29 December)
In reference to the plane incident the Chicago Tribune said, 'Similar inci-
dents will be avoidable if the US will refrain from provocations.,' (Vilagos-
sag, 29 December.)
Scant space was devoted to the US plane incident. Szabad Nep, for
example, mentioned it briefly three times: (1) on 22 December,'a short com-
munique of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published, stating that tht
fliers would be tried in court; (2) on 24 December, an MTI (Hungarian News
Agency) report stated that the fliers had been sentenced; and (3) on 30 Decem-
ber. an article was Published accusing the US of bad faith for closing the
Hungarian consulates at New York and Clevelarnl, s',,pping the issuance of pass-
ports to Hungary, and breaking off trade relations with Hungary in retalietion
for the incident. The article also mentioned briefly that the fine of 120,000
dollars had been paid by the US.
The 4 and 5 January issues of iiepszavr, published the full text of Stalin's
New Year's message to the Japanese people, addressed to K. T iyosh] Iwamoto.
managing editor of the Kyodo News Agency. According to a Tass report quoted in
Nepazava, Stalin's message was not mentioned in any American newspaper. Nep-
azava was the only Budapest newspaper whzc. put,ised the Stalin message; none
of the other newspapers contained any reference to it.
Reli ion
The Christmas message of the
the world, hungarian Protestants "to the Christians of
signed by a number of bishops, includes the following passage:
"Unfortunately, there are people who have b-en blinded by years of war propa-
ganda and have become, wittingly or unwittrugly, the tools of warmongering
American finance capital. The poisoned tools of this capital include a cam-
paign of slander against eastern Eurolean and Asiatic countries .... We appeal
to you to fight the hypocrisy which mocks Chrlstien principles and stirs up
hatred between the peoplen and ch,iches," (Magyar Nemzet, 22 December.)
While the Hungarian Catholic weekly, U,) Reber (New Man), corsistently
refrains from anti-US propaganda, tn' nwis;, weekly Uj Elet (New Life) has had
at least one pro-regime and anti-US article in each issue for the past several
months.
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