SCHISM IN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300570007-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 8, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL I T ELLU EN GROUP
INTEWWGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Hui, sry
SWECT Schism in Social Doweratic Party
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1. The X~ro--~Y Payer Daetorandum on the corruption within the Social Democratic Party
and Comuxriat domination of eo of the Party leaders was submitted to British
Labor Party officials before r d Szakasita, leader of the pro-Communist faction
in the Hungarian- Social Democratic Party, was aware of its contents. British
Laborites had approved the memorandum but stipulated that it should be circulated
as a pamphlet a few days prior to the Party, Congress held 1 to 3 -February.
2. Payer himself felt that publication of the .r secrcan iti i in szava the official
organ of the Social Democratic Party, daring the middle o"` "osenber bolstered
his cause se hat and that 80 percent of the old-line socialists completely
approved of the mmorandum. He has also prepared a second memorandum containing
information on specific instances of corruption among the Party leader--particul-
arly the S kasits family- -wbiah he planned to produce at the Congress.
3, Szakasit.9 has tried to affect a compromise with Payer by offering Payer and his
In case it is necessary to organize this new Party in opposition to the Ssakasits
faction, Weyer contends that he has been .assured that some 20 Sme11 Holders and
six to. eight Peasant Party members-each of them Members of Parliament--win join
his., thus giving his group a total of about 240 seats,
group a i",.? percent, representation in the future goverment, which would have
S akasit as Fraeident and Payer as Vice President. The offer was refused.
If the Foyer faction should be expelled from the Party, it will imniodiately become
the nucleus of a new Socialist Party, politically in line with the British, Swedish,
Danish and, Austrian Socialists. Foyer maintains that in this event he has some
assurance that the new 'arty will be recognized by these groups as the real repro-
sentative of the Social Democratic elements in Hungary.
The follo l pies from a relative of Szak ts, whose reliability has not been
eastabiisheds
6. The Payer -mmorandma was a severe blow to Szakasite, cueing as it did after the
admonitory lecture he recently received from Prima Minister Attlee. Szaksai is
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fears he may be hard pressed to explp-ba some of the ckargee contained In
7a -In view of the open dissatisfaction of a group in the Social Deno c atic Paarty$
Ssatastts has decided not to play so closely .th the Co ,sn.s an he has in
the pea,. Ho does not,, however, intend to relax in pmseing for election reforms.
He feels that having joined with the Coztunists in their demands on this subject,,
a now election would give his Part absolute m jo'iV if a a U n and one , ha ?
voters are disfranchised under the projected ref"or? coupled with the grcmiM
unpopularity of the Coo mn' ixt Party in Hu}' ge xy0
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