Levéltári Közlemények, 43. (1972)
Levéltári Közlemények, 43. (1972) 2. - FORRÁSKÖZLÉS - Kanyar József: Brit diplomáciai iratok a magyarországi földreformok történetéhez, 1920–1945 / 403–417. o.
Brit diplomáciai iratok a magyarországi földreformok történetéhez 1920—1945 411 where the Land Regulation Court establishes that the owner himself created the circumstances necessary for exemption in order to evade the stipulations of the Bill. Article 11 stipulates that estates whose area excluding forests and other parts coming under the stipulations of the land tax, amounts to at least 1000 yokes, will no longer be regarded as middle sized estates for purposes of the reform. The act also permits the reaction of Rent Holdings. Such Rent Holdings may be formed out of estates which have passed to the State by virtue of the Capital Levy. The Minister of Agriculture controls all decisions of the Land Regulation Court, but once the Land Regulation Court carries out an expropriation, no revision of the process is admissible. The Minister of Agriculture will be responsible for seeing that persons obtaining land cultivate it properly. Whoever, after due warning, neglects to cultivate his property, speculates with *t, or omits to pay his rent, may be deprived of it by the Court. The Act further lays down that whoever refuses to accept a farm allotted to him shall not be entitled to receive another elsewhere. The Amendment Act is accompanied by an explanatory report which points our that the Land Reform Bill left certain questions open, and thereby occasioned many contraversies. Lawsuits have consequently resulted causing great damage to those who are entitled to receive land. In particular the Land Reform Bill failed definitely to define the conditions under which small estates and building sites may be obtained. The Bill also did not sufficiently take into account the position of farm ' servants, and hitherto there have been no means of securing small holdings for claimants. This is also settled by the present Act. The number of members of the Land Regulation Court will be increased from 36 to 40, to which the Minister of Agriculture will in future be entitled to delegate four members. » The general reasons which have necessitated the drawing up of the above Bill were outlined in Mr. Hohler's despatch No. 224 of the 18-th May last. Apart from the technical motives referred to in that despatch, the Bill also fulfils a political purpose, inasmuch as it will serve to convince the Small Landowner wing of the Einheitspartei that the Government are prepared to hasten the procedure of land reform. Actually the Government are adopting a middle course between the conservative Great Landowners and those who advocate a radical measure of expropriation, and opposition from these two points of view may be expected when the Biil comes up for discussion when the House reassembles after the recess. I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, My Lord, Yuor Lordships's most obedient humble Servant John Balfour PRO FO С 14289! 14289121 ' • v 4. Debrecen, 1945. március 7. Részletek A. Gascoigne-nak, a Magyarországi Brit Politikai Misszió vezetőjének a meginduló magyarországi politikai élet állami intézményeiről és politikai pártjairól szóló jelentéséből There are at present five political parties which make up the so-called Hungarian National Front. These parties have all, by and large, accepted the programme of the Government; but there is however, disagreement regarding the method of carrying out agrarian reform and the dates for its implementation and completion. The composition of these parties is as follows: (1) The Communist Party has sixty-five Deputies. The leader is Mathias Rákosi, a lawyer by profession. It will be remembered that he was a People's Commissar in the Hungarian Communist régime (March —August 1919). M. Rákosi was arrested after the collapse of communism and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, only being released in 1938, when he was permitted to proceed to the Soviet Union in exchange for certain regimental banners captured by the Russians from the Hungarians in 1848. Since 1938* he has resided in Moscow and only returned to Hungary * Gascoigne rosszul volt informálva: Rákosi Mátyás 1941-ben távozhatott a Szovjetunióba s nem 1938-ban.
