For a Socialist Hungary [antikvár]

Honoured assembly, Comrades,I am happy that in accordance with the programme of our visit to your factory, we now have an opportunity to speak at this mass meeting on matters of common interest, on questions which are engaging our Central Committee and government.First of all, some brief words about the internal political situation, the state of our country. The internal relations of the Hungarian People's Republic are in good trim: our country, our society, is at work implementing a commonly determined, clear programme; there is broad agreement in our homeland. Our Party's 9th Congress formulated the aims and tasks most precisely and fully. At that Congress our Party took up the major problems of our society one by one, analysed the situation, put the new tasks on the agenda and marked out the road and the manner in which we want to approach our aims.The Congress was followed by many important social events: the trade union congress, the congresses of the youth league, the co-operative farms and the general co-operatives, and many other events important to our society. We have already concluded a full economic year since the Party Congress. So on the basis of a many-sided and established judgement of values we can now say that the Hungarian working class, the peasantry, the intelligentsia, the working people, have accepted approved, and support with deeds the aims of our Party's 9th Congress, both as regards the main question, the complete building of a socialist society, and various other questions as well.This agreement, as I said, is firmly established. However, we are not in the habit of entertaining illusions, nor of deluding others. When we say that in Hungary the political situation and the atmosphere is good, we are also very well aware that not everyone takes the same attitude to the main objective, the main efforts. In Hun-