The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1989 (12. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1989-01-01 / 1. szám

Oui Æeadeié út: brÍTMnLIA CANADA PLEASE DON’T FORGET! USA • to pay your subscription fee for 1989 (US $ 10,- plus airmail 2,50, total US $ 12,50); • to pay your subscription fee for 1988 (total: same) if in arrears; • 1988-1989 together: US $ 25,-; • in European countries: annual DM 20,— or equivalent; • to forgive us this reminder, in case you have already paid one of the above I • that by your contribution you further our continued mission in sake of our readers in the Third World _ who cannot always afford the annual fee... Thank you! Best way to pay is by personal cheque ! The Publisher: Tibor Tollas Bank account: No 260 5756 Commerzbank AG Munich. (Continued from page 11) party in the semi-free elections of August, 1947, winning 60 seats out of 411 (XVII). BULGARIA A new law on the churches was promulgated on February 2 and passed on February 24. Presenting it, Prime Minister Vassil Kolarov said that Church-State relations were based on freedom of conscience and religion and on "the separation of Church and State". This separation did not however mean that "the Church is outside the State or that it constitutes a State within the State... The Church is under the people’s sovereignty and is subordinate to the Constitution." The law described the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as "in form, substance and spirit a People's Democratic Church". All Church activity required the approval of the Foreign Minister; education, youth organisa­tions, hospitals and orphanages belonged to the province of the State. Foreign hospitals and missions were banned. On February 10 the Ministry of the Interior announced that 15 pastors of the United Evan­gelical Churches had been arrested and would be tried for espionage, treason and currency offences. The main accused were Pastors Vassil Zlapkov (Congregational); Yanko Ivanov (Methodist); Nikola Naumov (Baptist) and Georgi Chernev (Pentecostal). The indictment described all the defendants as "professional spies and traitors’'; they were said to have confessed their guilt while in prison. The trial lasted from February 25 till March 6; the defendants were sentenced to life im­prisonment, deprivation of civil rights, and confiscation of their property. The presiding judge of the "People's Court", Constantin Und­­zihev, took credit for his clemency in not impos­ing the death penalty, an observation which was duly echoed by the accused. The day after the arrests were announced, February 11, the US State Department drew attention to the similarity between the charges against the Bulgarian pastors and those against Cardinal Mindszenfy - a similarity which exit­­ended to the verdicts. On February 19, the Zveno (link) Party, a republican party, and the small Radical Party, announced their dissolution. POLAND A further stage in the fall of the former Com­munist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka (XXIV) came on January 21, when he was dismissed from his Deputy Premiership. He had also been Minister for the Recovered Territories (i.e. recovered from Germany), but that ministry had been dissolved on December 30, 1948; on January 11, 1949, the Recovered Territories were formally incorporated into Poland. At the same time as Gomulko's dismissal irom his Deputy Premiership, the Minister ot Public Administration, Edward Osóbka-Moraw­­ski, a Socialist who had been willing to co­operate with the Communists to the extent of becoming Chairman of the Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of Notional Liberation (the "Lublin Committee”), was also dismissed. Gomulka's successor as Deputy Premier was Politburo member Alexander Zawadzki, a will­ing instrument of Soviet policy and a future President; Osóbka-Morawski was succeeded by his deputy, Wladyslaw Wolski. Gomulka was given the derisory post of Vice-Chairman of the Supreme Chamber of State Control. Associates of his were also demoted, as part of a drive against "national­ist deviation'. SOVIET ZONE OF GERMANY The first Conference of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) on January 25—28, made itself a more exact replica of the Soviet Party by electing a Politburo, which replaced the central Secretariat as the main party body and strengthened the representation on the Polit­buro and the Secretariat of forme; Communist Party (KPD) members. This Conference also marked a tightening in cultural policy; all Party work in culture must henceforward be based on Marxism-Leninism; writers’ and artists’ contributions to the new Two-Year Plan would "consist of the develop­ment of realistic art... Through their works, progressive writers can help to develop the joy of work and optimism of factory workers and the working rural population." f HE GUARDIAN Of UBiKlT (NEMZETŐR) Erscheint 2monatlich. Einzelpreis für Deutschland DM 4,— Edited by the Editorial Board Verleger, Herausgeber und Inhaber TIBOR KECSKÉSI TOLLAS NEMZETŐR Ferchenbachstr. 88 • 8000 München 50 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Verantwortlicher Redakteur (Editor): ZOLTÁN RÁD Ferchenbacfastraße 88, D-8000 München 50 Druck (print): DAJfUBIA DRUCKEREI GMBH Fercfaenbachstraße 88, D-8000 München 50 AFRICA REPRESENTATIVES A BALE CAMEROON: L. T. JOHNSON, Divisional Inspectorate of Education, NIC AMBE, North West Province, Republic of CAMEROON. 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REFUGEES REPORT BORDER ATOCITIES (Continued from page 4) the churches received 5,650,000 forints to fi­nance the maintenance and administrative costs of temporary homes, and the National Translation and Verification Bureau received nearly 1,500,000 forints for translating re­fugees’ documents. The Hungarian Government daily, Magyar Hírlap, has published detailed information to enable refugees to find their way about and fulfil the formalities necessary to regularise their position. The newspaper also gave advice on trying to obtain accomodation and apply­ing for social welfare. JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1989

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