OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 241, 16 December 1996
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS HUNGARIAN EDITION OF MEIN KAMPF. The publisher of
a new translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has decided to appeal the
Budapest prosecutor general's 22 November suspension of retail sales of
the book, Nepszabadsag reported. The publisher says that Mein Kampf,
which was not legally available to anyone but researchers during the
communist era, has historical value and should be available to readers.
The new Hungarian translation is by Aron Monus, a Hungarian emigre who
returned from France after 1989. Monus's own anti-Semitic books were
banned in 1991, but he later won an appeal against the ban on freedom of
speech grounds. After Monus sold 2,000 copies of the new Hungarian
translation of Mein Kampf in October and November, the head of Hungary's
Jewish Community, Peter Feldmayer, appealed to the district attorney to
have the book banned. -- Zsofia Szilagyi
HUNGARIAN PREFECTS IN ROMANIA. The Hungarian Democratic Federation of
Romania (UDMR) will have three prefects, according to an agreement
reached by the political parties making up the new governmental
coalition. The daily Jurnalul national reported on 16 December that the
UDMR will have prefects in the counties of Harghita, Salaj, and Satu
Mare, and deputy prefects in Covasna, Hunedoara, Mures, and Bucharest.
Harghita and Covasna are inhabited by strong ethnic Hungarian majorities
and, with the exception of Bucharest, the other four counties have
relatively large ethnic Hungarian populations. According to the
agreement, the National Peasant Party Christian Democratic will have 19
prefects, the Social Democratic Union 12, the National Liberal Party
seven, and the National Liberal Party-Democratic Convention one prefect.
-- Michael Shafir
[As of 12:00 CET]
Compiled by Victor Gomez
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