HUNGARIAN "SILENT DEMONSTRATION" DURING REBURIAL OF EX-"TITOIST" RAJK

Created: 10/9/1956

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UNGARIAN "SILENT DEMONSTRATION" DURING REBURIAL OF EX-"TITOIST" RAJK

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The attendanceungarians at the reburial ceremony of Laszlo Rajkctober was acclaimed by Budapest radiosilent demonstration"an "inextinguishable hatred" for despotism and the personality cult. Szabad Nep. the Communist Party daily, interpreted the demonstration as public support for de-Stalinization and liberalization policies and repledged itself to the new policies of moderation.

The Rajk reinterment apparently was designed to stimulate popular support forolicies and to help improve relations with Yugoslavia. Hungarian regime spokesmen, in condemning charges againstIn the Rajk trial and other past slanders, have shown Increasing admiration of Yugoslavia's independence.

Yugoslav editorial comment on theis similar in tone to that of the Hungarian Belgrade radio claimedctober that thethat the "new fresh tendencies" in Hungary areground and that it represents an additional obstacleattempt to return to the oldelgrade alsothat some additional measures may be pendingAccording to the Belgrade editorial, thethat "the guilty ones should be nailed to theshame" was aimed primarily at Rakosi.

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