An Army spokesman today conceded that a new Hungarian-American weekly newspaper published by a man described as “a veteran propagandist of Nazi anti-Semitism both in Hungary and the U. S.” was being distributed with Army approval to refugees at Camp Kilmer, N. J.
Irving M. Engel, president of the American Jewish Committee, said that Zoltan Fay’s paper, Szabad Magyarsag (Free Hungary), was marked by a “flagrantly pro-Nazi spirit.” He said the paper was being distributed secretly at the camp, but the Army said the publication had been screened by Army intelligence and approved for distribution there.
Writers for the paper include Lajos Marschalko, who was deported from the U.S. in 1951 as “an active pro-Nazi,” according to immigration authorities. Another writer mentioned by Mr. Engel was Kalman R. Rattkay, “former editor in Budapest of the Nazi daily Uj Magyarsag, which was the chief propaganda organ of Hitler’s plan to subjugate Hungary.”
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