Bela Varga. who currently resides in New York. was the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament after the relatively free 1945 election but had to flee following the Communist coup in Hungary at the end of May 1947. For his work in aiding and saving French prisoners of war in Hungary during World War II. he had received the Legion of Honor from President Charles de Gaulle. Varga was also active in saving Polish refugees and officers in Hungary during the war and many Jews during the German occupation of Hungary after March 20. Msgr. Vargas remarks demonstrate the affinity between the Polish and Hungarian peoples and their aspirations to independence and political freedom and shows that the Polish workers movement is regarded as the harbinger of radical change in all of the region. not just in Poland.
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