Nixon Accused
Of ‘Theatrical’
Visit to Austria
By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST, OB—The newspa
per of Premier Janos Kadar's
Communist Party accused Vice
President Richard M. Nixon Sat
urday of making a “theatrically
staged” visit to Austria to encour
age refugees to flee Hungary.
At the Mime time, the paper,
Nepszabadsag, charged Austria
violated its neutrality by permit
ting Nixon to visit refugee camps
while it allegedly refused the
same permission .a Hungarian
government representatives.
The new attack on Nixon came
as most of Budapest’s 1V4 million
people appeared to be downtown
n the throes of Christmas shop
ping. Public transport was so
crowded some persons rode on
the roofs of buses.
A ban on the sale of alcoholic
liquor, imposed during last week s
general strike, was partly lifted.
Hungarians were permitted to
buy bottles to take home. Drink
ing in bars and restaurants still
was forbidden.
Hungarian Roman Catholics will
• have to go to the traditional
Christmas midnight Mass at 5
ta.m., Christmas Day, priests told
their congregations, because the
night curfew remains in effect.
U.S. LOANS BRITAIN j
$500 MILLION FOR
ESSENTIAL IMPORTS
WASHINGTON UP)—The United j
States loaned Britain $500 million
Friday in another effort to bail
that nation out of the financial
crisis stemming from the Suez
Canal closure.
The government's Export-Im
port Bank made the loan to per
mit Britain to pay in dollars for
essential imports over the next
13 months. These imports include
US. oil shipments now being
rushed to oil-short western Eu
rope.
The loan followed a record
breaking $1,300,000,000 which
was made available 11 days ago
by the International Monetary
Fund to help restore British re
serves, which had dwindled be
low what is considered the dan
ger point.
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Rotary and Banediction 4 p.m.
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MIDNIGHT MASS MONDAY
CHRISTMAS MASS 8 a-m.
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