DISSOLUTION OF HUNGARIAN HOUSE RESCINDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300270010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Dissolution of Hungarian House'
Rescinded
DATE DISTR. 2 Feb 1949
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DATE OF INFO. 21 December 1948 - 5 Januaxq 1949 25X1 X6 SUPPLEMENT TO
1. The decree dissolving La Yaison Hongroise (Hungarian House or Association of
Hungarian Democrats in France), which was issued on 20 December 1948, was
revolted by the French Ministry of Interior on 5 Janusr 1949 with the viso
25X1A6a that the leadership of the organization be changed. ( The
original decree of the Ministry of the Interior orders Matson Mngrol7se to
cease all activities within thirty days. The reason given for the measure was
that the interrogation of three striking Hungarian miners showed that they had
received their instructions from La Maison Hongroise. Members of the Hungarian
Legation in Paris and particularly Inure Gyomai, Press Attache, who is responsible
for Hungarian House immediately mobilized all possible support throughout France
to have the order rescinded.)
2. On instructions from the Hungarian Government, Count Michael Karolyi, a Communist
and Hungarian Minister to France, saw Robert Schuman .and notified him that, If the
French Government continued to stick by the dissolution. decree, the Bulgarian
Government would immediately retaliate by dissolving all French cultural institutions
in Hungary. This would include dissolving all the existing French schools in
Hungary and the French Cultural Institutes at the various universities of the
country, as well as prohibiting the teaching of French in the Hungarian high-soho4lso
3o Late last year the Rumanian Government dissolved the French cultural institutions
in Rumania and stopped the teaching of French in Rumanian schools. In view of the
fact that similar developments in Hungary would be tantamount to removing completely
the centurion-old French cultural influence from the whole of Eastern Europe,
Schuman yielded and told Count Karolyi that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had iso
knowledge of the decree of dissolution and did not agree with the Ministry of
Interior on this point. A similar statement was also made in Budapest by the
French Minister.
4. Despite the fact. that the French Government has cancelled the dissolution of
Hungarian House, French cultural institutions in Hungary will not be spared.
Gyorgy Lukacs, 50, well-known Marxist philosopher and one of the most outstanding
ideologists of the Hungarian Conm unist Party, presently in Paris to give several
lectures at the Sorbonne,.stated, in private conversations, that the lenient
attitude of the Hungarian Government towards French cultural institutions in Hangar
is drawing to an and. Pursuing its policy of purging Hungarian cultural life of
all capitalistic influences, the Hungarian Government will soon have to proceed
to the abolishment of all French cultural institutions in the country, and stop
the tvaching of the French language in Hungarian schools.
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