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...Communist leader least likely to be accused of promoting a personality cult is Hungary's Janos Kadar, a man as cold and colorless as the sour cream with which Magyars anoint the spicy stew they call szekely gulyds. Ever since he crushed the 1956 revolt, Premier Kadar has kept his picture off office walls and newspaper pages, remains so unfamiliar that even today he can walk the streets of Budapest without being recognized by many Hungarians. All the same, the new style in Communist circles these days is separation of party and government leadership, and so Kadar last week...
Retaining his most powerful position as party First Secretary, Kadar, 53, handed the premiership to black-haired, moon-faced ex-Journalist Gyula Kallai, 55, his lifelong friend, sometime jail-mate (between 1951 and 1954, under Stalinist Matyas Rakosi), and longtime foreign affairs adviser, who since 1960 has been Deputy Premier. Kadar also reshuffled his Politburo, replaced creaking party stalwarts with younger men. Janos Brutyo, 54, and Sandor Caspar, 48, two tough administrators, were named respectively president and secretary-general of the trade unions, and Zoltan Komocsin, 42, editor of the Communist organ Nepszabadsag, became party director of foreign affairs...
...changes were not merely for appearances' sake. While Kadar has earned tolerance of his regime by easing travel restrictions, making consumer goods available, and in general promoting gulyds Communism, Hungary's economy is in serious trouble. A decidedly ineffectual administrator, Kadar confessed recently that, because of "unevenesses, difficulties and mistakes," scheduled improvements in farm and industrial efficiency had not materialized. Moreover, agricultural exports to Western Europe, Hungary's traditional market, are steadily being trimmed by the Common Market's rising tariff barriers. Thus, Kallai and Komocsin are plainly better suited than Kadar for such tasks...
Lukacs' article seemed to reflect the views of the Kadar government, which last September took a notable step toward normalization of church-state relations by signing an agreement with the Vatican allowing it to appoint bishops to a number of sees. Kadar now seems willing to move on from there and provide more freedom for the country's 6,000,000 Catholics. His condition is that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who still lives in the U.S. legation on Freedom Square in Budapest, will play no active role in the Hungarian church. The Vatican is reluctant to negotiate any settlement...
...Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...