1988. január (1-16. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
1 «Sí 24/D J-ittle Ruisell Street, LONDON, WC.i • Tel. 0*-4»O zi 26 • G. Krassé 2/1988 (E) 6th January, 1988 Karoly Király*s Letter to Ceausescu. I.G. Maurer’s - Ex-Head of State and Premier - Letter to Király Karoly Király, who is 58 and lives in Tirgu Műre? was a member of the Central Committee of the Románián Communist Party in the sixties and early seventies; in his ovn words he had a part in almost all the work of the Bucharest central apparátus. In 1972 when the measures to oppress the Hungárián minority became more severe he resigned from most of his duties - later from all of them - and al- though he sees himself as a communist he has bitterly criticized the policies of the Románián leadership fór years, including the infringement of humán and nat- ional minority rights and the regulations imposed on the Hungarians. Last year on August l6th Karoly Király sent a letter to President Ceausescu and sent a copy of it to many other Románián party leaders, both those still in office and those who have been expelled. He received, among many others, a very warm reply from Ion Gheorghe Maurer the ex-head of state and premier. Király enclosed a copy of an anonymous letter vhich was sent to him in July with his own letter, it reflects the chauvinist ideas spreading among Romanians under the influence of official propaganda. Only now, more than four months laté, have the documents reached the west through the Transylvanian Hungárián Press Agency which printed the texts of the letters in a special report. In his letter to President Ceausescu Karoly Király mentions the years when he was still a member of the leading Románián state and party organs and was in close contact with Ceausescu. He particularly dwelled on one of their conversations when they debated the situation of Románián agriculture and planned to allow priváté stock breeding and to support household farming. Király said that at that time it was still possible to criticize the official policies of the party, bút that those who were on opposition - fór example Maurer, Bodnáras, Iliescu, Trofin, János Fazekas, Niculescu, Vaáile Lupu - had all been expelled since then. Today, writes Király, "Certain people in state or party office behave more offen- sively than the old Boyars (landed gentry) did to their serfs. Behaviour which rides roughshod over the humán personality does nőt abide by normál state laws and basic party regulations." According to Király free speech should still be possible today and sycophants should be expelled. He declared that it is nőt his intention to instruct Ceaugescu bút he is afraid that the president believes the tailor-made praises and that the communists’ idea to build a new society has been forgottén. After this Király mentions the anonymous letter which he received on July 20th from someone who signed the letter as follows: "A Románián hearted Románián who unfortunately lives in a communist country." The writer of the letter lays the responsibility fór the coming to power of the communist system with the Hungárián Romanians and the Jews, and because of this - so it is written - they now get what they deserve. The writer complains that nobody talks about the situation of Romanians living in Moldávia and Bessarabia which are annexed to the Soviet Union. He continues: "We were freed from the Jews - who were quicker and cleverer -, we sell the Germans as in the times of slavery, and the Hungarians will have nothing left bút to go to Kádár because we Romanians will only be really happy when this happens .........." Károly Király agrees
