FORMATION OF PEASANT PARTY OPPOSITION GROUP

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• Publication Date: November 20, 1946
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S$ I IECT Formation of Peasant srt Opposition
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I TE LIGENCE RE117-11TT
COUNTRY Eastern and southeastern Eurolp,;
+ Q. 20 November 1946
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Dr,, Vladko Macek, exiled leader of tie Croatian Peasant Party.
now in Paris., has been active during the past month in attempt-
ing to organize the various Eastern and Southeastern European
Peasant Parties into an opposition group. For this pwi-epose he
has been in exploratory contact with certain Pesent Party leaders
abroad and in their native countries e
2. Information has now been received that the text of a draft dec-
laration of a Peasant Party Opposition group has been prepared
by Macek and is currently being sent J) g him to Ferenc .Nagy,, Prime
Minister of Eungary and leader of the mall Holders Party a Georgi
M. Dimitrov of the Eu..,garian Agraria .i Party, now in exile in
Washington; 'ilan Gavrilovich, leade:, of the Serb Agrarian Party
now in London; Dragol lub Jovanovich of the Serb National Peasant
Party; Tuliu .nlu leader of the Ru raian National Peasant Party;
and S tanisi ail Mikola jozyk, head of the Polish Peasant ?arty.
The draft declaration atatW
The undersigned representatives of the Peasant Parties of
Eastern and Southeastern Europa consider it necessary that
they declare now their accord on. the following principles:
(a) The Peasant Parties fora the most important
political force in Eastern Europe j, representing
more than 50,000,000. free political vootes?
(b) Rejecting the arterial ideology of cotmarnuni. m,
the Peasant Parties base their hope in the
future on Christian ethics and family life,.
(c) Individual liberty and ps:f_ cant lands i epre.-
sent the basis of social political f orsce.
Therefore they reject especially enforced
collectivization or cooperatives.
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(d) They reject the idea of New uemocracy'$
sponsored by the C r rrunist Pa.xrties xzr
representing a new form of dictatorship
and the destruction of Political liber-
ties.
~e ' Bey a ppca.1' to all other der,~ocra t1e pa
ties to join in this declaration while
awaiting the common struggle for demro-
r:.ratic 11ber ties b
In accordance :Frith this dea aration. the
decision has been taken for the closest
cooperation among the said parties to
pursue political action in order to real-
ize the above principles.
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