Hungarian Rebel Leader Galls for Free Elections
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Oct, 28, '56 (Sec. III)21 :r
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By PETER HOFFER
HEGYESHALOM, Hungary, Oct.
27 UP A rebel leader said here to
night the anti-Communist revolu.
tionariet want general elections
throughout Hungary to determine
Its future government.
The interview took place in the
customs house of this town just
across the Austrian border. The
hut was crowded to overflowing
by a mixture of rebels, soldiers,
civilians, workers in overalls,
young men with fiery eyes, and
ambulance personnel.
A stocky Hungarian of about SO
was pointed out as the command-
Kremlin May
Lose Control
Of Communism
ant of the Gyoer border district.
Withholding his name but speak
ing with great sincerity, he declared:
"We freedom fighters want free
and general elections in which all
parties will be equal.
Show Popularity
"This will determine which par
ty is most popular with the people.
'-"In th ftlnMrt at
diers, workers and students have
fprmed councils but they have not
yet proceeded to set up a formal
table of government organization.
"We are not in contact with oth
er rebel-held areas and do not
know where rebels are fighting
except Budapest.
"We have no telephone connec
tions with the Hungarian capital,
but we know there is fighting
there.
"The main aim of our uprising
is the end of the hated rule of the
Russians.
Hungarlai Way
"It is not important, in our opin
ion, if someone is for or against
communism. We all are entitled
in demanding that we have our
Hungarian way."
The commandant shifted in his
chair and surveyed the smoke
filled room where there was
much shouting, kissing and hand-
clapping. I got my share of the
kissing, too, when I arrived across
about a mile of no man's land.
The commandant went on:
"Factories already are working
in the Gyoer area and It is our
aim to do everything to normalize
life. This means the freedom fight
ers themselves wlH prevent any
excesses.
"We have nothing In common
with the present Communist gov
ernment,
Net Planned '
"The revolt w$s not planned or
organized by any group, It was a
spontaneous uprising.
"The fame goes for the general
strike called Thursday.
"Changing of power In our dis-
Htrlct could have been accom
plished without any bloodshed had
it not been for some hotheads
among soldiers who fired gren
ades into a peacefully demonstrat
ing crowd."
Moscow Radio
Blames U.S.
For Rebellion
LONDON, Oct. 27 isV-A Moscow
radio commentator tonight blamed
American dollars and propaganda
for sparking the anti-Communist
uprising in Hungary.
Anatoly Sherstyk, speaking on i
the Moscow radio home service,
charged the "counter-revolution-airy
putsch" and (he "closest and
direct ties with abroad."
And for the first time Russian
listeners were told Soviet troops
were taking part in the fighting?
The picture given the Russians
of the Hungarian uprising was
that of "counter-revolutionary reb
els attempting to overthrow the
peoples rule."
Sherstyk denounced the I'. S.
By THOMAS P. WHITNEY
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 -lt is
entirely possible that one day soon
Soviet Communist leaders will
wake up to find that in the inter
national Communist movement
their party is in a minority of one.
Recent events in Poland and
Hungary are indications that the
Kremlin, unless it begins to ma
neuver with greater adroitness
than it recently has shown, could
wind up in a position of total iso
lation within the Communist'
world.
This possibility arises from the .
currently obvious inability of Mos- i
cow chieftain!! to adjust to the
cold hard fact that no longer arc
they the only oyster in the Com
munist stew, that Moscow is just
one Communist capital among
many, not the Communist capital.
Errors Made
Three times In the last month
the Soviet Communist party has
made serious errors and dealt se
vere blows to its own prestige
among Communist countries:
1 Nikita Khrushchev proved his
Inability to convince President
Tito of Yugoslavia that it was cor
rect for Moscow to exercise direct
eontrol over Soviet Eastern Euro
pean satellite states and to use its
authority to slow down the de
Stalmlzation campaign.
2. Khrushchev flew to Warsaw
to deliver an ultimatum to the
Polish Communist oartv against
declarinj its independence of Mos-! Congress and privately financed
cow His ultimatum was rejected ! Kadio Free Kurope" for being in-
and he had to bark down.
Had In I e Korre
S. The Soviet leaders let them
selves he put in a position in
which they had to use Soviet
armed forces in an attempt to
crush the revolt In Hungary,
thereby labeling themselves not
only for the whole world but also
among Communists, as imperial
ists attempting to retain i colonial
empire by naked force and terror.
The effects of these Kremlin de
feats and errors will only be felt
In full strength much later but
even In the very near future they
will begin to become apparent.
Stronger Opposition
One of the effects within the So
viet Union is likely to be strength
ening of opposition within the
Communist party leadership to
Khrushchev with some other lead
er, or it may impose on him a
policy of combatting Titoism with
in that portion of the Communist
realm which remains Soviet-dominated.
Outside the Soviet Union effects
are certain to be the strengthen
ing of Tito in his resolve to re-
main free of Moscow's domination
and continue an independent Com
munist line, the strengthening of
Wladyslaw Gomulka in his deter
mination to make Communist Po
land totally free of Soviet rule,
and an increase in the longing of
Communist leaders in other satel
lite countries for independence of
their own.
MARGARET BACK HOME
LONDON, Oct. 27 (T-Princcss
Margaret, sun-tanned and in a
merry mood, returned Friday from
a 20,000-mile royal tour of East
Africa and Mauritius Island in the
Indian Ocean.
stigators in the Hungarian rebel
lion. Citing a report from Vienna
that the rebels were well armed,
he said:
"Here then it is a question of
a well-trained and armed under
ground. The .bourgeois Western
papers prefer at present to keep
silent about who is organizing and
financing the subversive actions
against the countries of the social
ist camp.
U. 8. Centres
"But it is already clear to the
whole world that it is precisely
the U.S. Congress which annually
allocates for this dark affair 100
million dollars. And last summer
the U.S.A. allocated an additional
23 million dollars to intensify the
subversive work in the peoples
democracies.
"And is this all? Remember the
broad campaign of sending bal
loons of an instigatory character
organized by the imperialist
agents from West Germany terri
tory. "Rumors Spread"
"Remember how many dirty
and provocative rumors are
spread every day by the so-called
Radio Free Europe,' financed by
American dollars.
"If we add to this the direct
diversionary and spying activities
of Western intelligence in these
countries, it will become even
more clear who is the real initia
tor of the anti-national, putsch in
Hungary."
He said the rebels are suffering
failure.
The commentator defended the
intervention by Soviet troops:
"At the request of the Hungar
ian government, Soviet troops took
part in repulsing the attacks of the
armed reactionaries and in estab
lishing order and calm."
Americans in War-Torn
Budapest Termed Safe
WASHINGTON. Oct. 27 W-The
United States legation reported
from battered Budapest today that
all American personnel and de
pendents in the 'Hungarian capital
are safe.
The message was sent to the
State Department through the
Hungarian Foreign Ministry. It
said also that the Hungarian gov
ernment warned this morning that
any group of three or more per
sons on the streets would be fired
on. All individuals in Budapest
were ordered to stay at home" aft
er 10 a.m. today.
First Word
The message released by the
State Department here was the
first word from the legation since
Thorsday afternoon. Normal chan
nels through which coded diplo
matic messages are moved had
closed down late Thursday after
noon Budapest time which was
noon Washington time.
Press officer Lincoln White said
late today that regular channels
had still not been restored. The
message he made public was giv
en by the legation to the Hunga
rian Foreign Office and presuma
bly radioed to the Hungarian le
gation in London, where it was
filed to Washington through com
mercial channels.
Left In .Convoy
The message said that Mr. and
Mrs. Chrysler (other identification
missing1, Mr. and Mrs. Mathys
and Mr. Wolf had left Budapest
for Vienna in convoy yesterday.
It also said that four Americans
of "the Garst group" were still in
Margit Island Hotel.
That apparently was a reference
to the party of an Iowa seed coto
dealer named Garst, White said.
The Pioneer Hybrid Seed Corn Co.
of Coon Rapids, Iowa, headed by
Roswell Garst, has been negotiat
ing sales of seed corn to Russia
and satellite countries, with the
sanction of the U. S. governments
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