Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Political campaigns [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Hungary [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-111488. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-111488

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing a series of biweekly summaries of politics in Hungary from December 1953 to December 1954. Topics discussed in the reports include changes to agricultural policies -- the production of agricultural machinery -- developments in Egyptian-Hungarian relations -- national budgets -- crime -- relations with the Soviet Union and Austria -- new regulations for the issuing of identity cards -- church-state affairs -- sessions of the National Trade Union Council -- and national holidays, including Red Army Day, Liberation Day, and the anniversary of Lenin's death. Other topics discussed include the Berlin Conference -- the trial of the former Chief of Police -- children's literature -- public reactions to Hungary's defeat at the Football World Championship -- cooperative farms -- food shortages due to the flooding of the Danube river -- the introduction of a new state pension scale -- the Geneva Conference -- new regulations for local elections -- changes within government ministry positions -- and foreign relations with the West.

Notes

• File date: 1954.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1984.

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