Bela Fabian, former president of the Jewish War Veterans of Hungary, this week-end charged that in various Hungarian Ministries and in the “Communist-founded National Peasants Party” officials continue an anti-Jewish attitude which does “not differ in the least in spirit from public offices under the Nazis.”
In a letter published in the New York Times, Mr. Fabian specifically named the Ministries of Industry and Reconstruction and Public Works. He said that speakers of the Peasants Party vie with each other in anti-Semitic utterances, adding that recently a Parliamentary member of the party declared at a mass meeting in Szabolcs County that the Jews are sabotaging the Hungarian five-year plan.
Commenting editorially on the letter, the Times said that although there is no racialism per se in Communist doctrine, the Jews and other minorities are being persecuted because Marxist communism “cannot tolerate a rival or even separate loyalty.” It adds that persecution for the Jews is more dangerous than for the Catholics or other groups because of the latent background of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe.
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