"Enemies of the People"

The U.S. made it plain last week that countries refusing to participate in the Paris conference on the Marshall approach will get no economic assistance from the U.S. Signs of a stiffer attitude toward Russia's satellites included:

P: Cancellation of a scheduled $7,000,000 cotton loan to Hungary. Secretary Marshall pointed out that the Hungarian negotiators of the loan, in whom the U.S. had confidence, had been exiled by Hungary's Communist regime.

P: Cancellation of $15 million in relief for Poland.

P: A U.S. demand that Hungary apologize for arresting Stephen T. Thuransky, a naturalized American who had told Hungarians what he thought of their Communist-run Government. Thuransky fought his way free of guards, found overnight sanctuary in the U.S. Legation. Next day, with his family, he was whisked out of Budapest by U.S. plane. His Russian exit clearance, obtained in three hours, was the fastest on record.

P: A U.S. note charging Rumania's Communist-stooge Government with having violated its peace treaty with the U.S. Suppression of the National Peasant Party, and arrest of Juliu Maniu, National Peasant leader, were both in violation of guaranteed freedoms, said Secretary Marshall. In Bucharest, Marshall's note went unpublished. Ana Pauker, Rumania's Amazonian Communist boss, was setting the tone. In a recent speech she termed Americans "fascists" and "enemies of the people."

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