TOP HUNGARIAN PARTY LEADERS TO VISIT BELGRADE

Created: 10/8/1956

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Hungarian party leaders to visit Belgrade: Belgr

announcementOctoberthe day Tito returnedo ference with Soviet leaders in Yaltathat five of the top ranking Hungarian Communist leaders will pay an official visit to Yugoslavia starting onctober suggests that

have succeeded to some Soviet leaders that de-Stalinization and "democratization" must not be wiped out in the Satellites, and may have agreed to co-operate with the USSR io holding the liberalization programore controlled pace in Hungary and Poland.

Gere's crip as head

The guidelines for the forthcoming talks undoubtedly were laid down in conversations between Tito and Hungarian party first secretary Gero in the Crimea, although Gero reportedly requested an invitation two months ago to send

a high-level delegation to Yugoslavia.

of the delegation will serve the purpose of paying public homage to Tito, as did Hungary's ceremonial reintermentctober of Laszlo Rajk, the former Titoist and "national deviationist." Besides its many efforts to overcomein its relations with Yugoslavia, Hungary has shown an inclination toore nationalistic domestic policy and on more than one occasion its leaders have

referred to the Yugoslav exampleighly commendable pattern to follow.

that include Yugoslavia

The inclusion in the delegation of "moderate" members the Hungarian party may be designed to prove to Tito liberalization in Hungaryeality and need not the further step of rehabilitating imre Nagy, as has been urging.

Soviet loan to Hungary: oviet credit to Hungary announcedctober was grantedime of political unrest and economic need in theas also tbe case inoan in the same amount to Poland, it is probably designed to rebut the arguments of Hungarian party "moderates" who have been claiming that the USSR is draining tbe country's economy. Moscow probably believes that Soviet financial assistance would bolster the Moscow-oriented position and policies of Hungarian party leader Gero, who has been engaged in talks with Soviet leaders in the Crimea.

Fifteen million dollars of the grant will be in raw materials, then convertible currency This sum will do little to alleviate Hungary's economic problems; these are causederennial shortage of foreign exchange, heavy dependence on imported raw

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ommitment to increase average real the next five-yearyercent, financial obligations to the USSR.

during and heavy

the USSR may for additional economic

Satellites

By granting loans to recalcitrant Satellites such Poland and Hungary in an attempt in part to deal with the internal ferment in these countries, stimulate demands by other assistance.

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