European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Budapest question Mark continued from Page 3 without the Protection of the hungarian police Force is More than 90 per cent under leftist bloc of Twentyfive county chiefs of Polit ical Twenty four Are the leftist bloc also takes in a Domi Nant proportion of officials in the judiciary in the municipal governments and in the management of publicly owned Industrial what kind of Job is communist dominated Hungary doing in the reconstruction the shops Are although clothes sell at new York prices while wages remain a Quarter of new York food prices Are controlled and food is Only because of and sugar Are in Short there is work for a vast land Reform program is in even the loudest complainers admit that there was enough Coal Here last Winter when the rest of Europe was Public buildings Are being repaired perhaps rapidly As Public resentment for wartime destruction is directed mostly against the who Hung onto the Buda Side of the trying to defend it against the russians from an old when it was obviously impossible to Check the soviet thereby causing the hopeless wreck of half the probably the one most important Reform since the end of the War was the solution of the tremendous inflation problem that had set Hungary Back to the Point that labor refused to work unless paid in both Money and the Money Reform replaced the once valued at a quadrillion to the american with the deflated which Sells legally at to the Dollar on the Black if you can find at fifteen to the the changeover simply pulled in All the Peng notes and replaced them with the new forint Money at a rate which was expected to leave in circulation just about the same amount of Money in circulation before the this plan was carried out under the direction of finance Nikolas a Fence straddling the scheme is criticized in Many quarters As having replaced the inflation with what at least an actual Nyaradi says this Slack will be largely taken up with the in Silver delivered from the he intends to expand Hungary currency by 10 or 20 per there was about in circulation at the time the Silver was it seems that this amount of pump priming will have any great effect on the nations Economy and Many still feel that Industrial recovery is being stifled by the in contrast to most at there is no cig Aret Economy in this country of american brands can be purchased openly for forint about eight five cents through Normal trading nightclubs charge fifteen forint for a pack of american the Market is insignificant because Hungary makes its own Cigar ets and has always been an exporter of just the american brands Are More popular Here than the native experienced Neutral observers state in under the hungarians Are enjoying personal Freedom such As they never had under the Horthy govern ment or under the nazis who occupied the satellite state during the feel that what Ever Freedom has been gained remains in they would like to see a More representative administration of the they Point to the cases of Bela Secretary Gen eral of the smallholders and three other prominent who have been sentenced to death allegedly plotting against the govern ment the americans claim that the nature of the charges makes honest expressions of criticism at the existing regime they feel that All the with the pos sible exception of the Freedom Are walking along the Edge of a precipice from which they must sooner or later to the question of what will happen in Hungary when the occupation ends there seem to be two most common the More common of these is that nothing will we Are geographically under the influence of our stronger is the reminder of a prominent Buda pest noted the possibility of a rightist dont he Hungary has been rightist for a Long one fact stands out hungarians Are not being converted to com the recently organized Freedom party is an Organ of out spoken the smallholders although it comprises philosophies that Range from extreme right to extreme is dominated by roman father the hungarian Secretary of is reputedly the brain behind the party and the coalition govern Bela another Catholic is speaker of Hungary Uhi Cameral it is not Likely that communist influences will claim these but who can Tell in a country where even the communists Are Catholic it is in the Field of religion that the next crisis in Hungary is due to upcoming is legislation to free the country Public schools of Church the Bishop Hungary has threatened to excommunicate those in parliament who vote for the Sepa ration and this Likely to put the As the legislative major in the Are there any signs of a Rucic in Budapest obviously the communists influence is stronger than their to what degree is that influence the direct result of soviet intervention perhaps the answer to that is to be found not in but Only in letters continued from Page 2 Why not show some of these Fine old Preitler Fitos around the dec Agnes Sta Nicella bad Tolz roast beef auf Toast sir your Story of Fortes for break fast May 25 amused me very just As i have been continually amused by the struggles of German waitresses with names of american foods at the snack bar where i often they manage to blend German and american in the strangest i like especially to hear them Call in for Eirmal or bawl Reimal Kaese but my favorite is something Eirmal roast beef auf George Madden Hanau arc welding in their class at the dec engineering school at Turnau instructor Bronell students pvt Donald Bernhardt and Frank cover photograph by the Story and pictures of the school at Turnau Are on pages 4 and material May be reproduced Only if Specic prior permit granted by the editors and in it is not restricted by manuscripts or photographs submitted to weekend should be accompanied by addressed envelopes and return weekend is not responsible for unsolicited contributions