Northern (N): Hungary (NH). Annual Review for 1962

A file containing a report produced by Ivor Pink, the British ambassador to Hungary, on developments within Hungary during 1962. The report discusses the difficulties faced by Hungarian agriculture during 1962; the general liberalisation of Hungarian society, marked by the Hungarian secret police being "shorn of some of their power"; and an increase in the number and quality of consumer goods available to Hungarian citizens. The report also covers political developments in Hungary during 1962, including the eighth congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (M.Sz.M.P.), which "proved to be rather a dull affair"; the expulsion of Mátyás Rákosi and Ernő Ger?, both former leaders of Hungary, from the M.Sz.M.P.; and the Hungarian government's announcement that it had freed ninety-five percent of Hungary's political prisoners. Other documents cover general developments in Hungarian international relations; and the state of political and cultural relations between Hungary and Britain.