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Rough, Tough Army. But it was in Hungary that the reaction was strongest. There the moderate, non-Communist Small Holders' Party, which recently jolted the Communists in the Budapest municipal election, this week repeated its feat by a great victory in the national elections. The fact that Stalin's closest friend and adviser in the Red Army command, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, had been stationed there as the occupation chief attested the political importance of Hungary to the Russians...
...much the Budapest radio told the outside world last week. After that, silence. No names were given, either of marauders or victims. In the U.S., the leftist press suspected that rightist elements were fighting land reform. In other areas of opinion it was suspected that Communists were fighting the Small Holders Party (small landholders) which currently has the upper hand among the five parties supporting the Miklos Government...
...S.H.P. likes land reform, but it also distinctly favors private land ownership. By classic standards it is slightly left of center, but it comprises the right wing of the present democratic bloc, and it is nonsocialist. The S.H.P. recently gained urban strength in the Budapest municipal elections, and it was expected up to last week-to gain rural strength in the national elections...
...Budapest voters had seemingly decided to turn right, despite the presence of the Red Army. In the Budapest municipal elections the non-socialist Small Holders' Party, which advocated breaking up Hungary's large estates into small privately owned holdings, won control of the City Council with 122 seats against 104 for the Communist-Social Democrat coalition. Much of its support came from people eager to vote for the only well-organized non-Communist party. The Small Holders' leader, Zoltan Tildy, jubilantly predicted that in the national election next month all Hungary would follow the capital...
...never treated him, but who happens to be from Missouri too. Tall, handsome Colonel Wallace H. Graham, 34, who went to the University of Missouri, where he was a boxer and track star, got his medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha, and studied surgery at Harvard, Chicago, Budapest, Szeged (Hungary) and Vienna. He went into practice in Kansas City with his father, Dr. J. W. Graham, who is a friend of Harry Truman's. On the side, young Dr. Graham continued surgical research. He joined the Army in 1941, was wounded soon after the Normandy invasion...