Gyula Kállai

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Gyula Kállai (1 June 1910 – 12 March 1996) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1951, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) from 1965 to 1967 and Speaker of the National Assembly from 1967 to 1971. He was also President of the National Council of the Patriotic People's Front from 1957 to 1989.

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Biography The son of a bookmaker, Kállai was born in Berettyóújfalu. In 1930, he enrolled as a student of Hungarian and Latin at the University of Budapest in 1930, transferring to the University of Debrecen in 1932. While a student, Kállai joined the Hungarian Communist Party (MKP) in 1931. Because of his political involvement, he was expelled from university in 1937 and started working as a journalist for the newspaper Független Újság in Debrecen and the social-democratic Budapest daily Népszava. During World War II, Kállai was involved in the resistance against the pro-German regime of Miklós Horthy; he was arrested in July 1942 for participation in illegal demonstrations, but released in November of the same year due to lack of evidence. In September 1944, he participated in the refounding of the MKP, and served as representative of the party to the Hungarian National Independence Front. In 1945, Kállai was elected a member of the Central Committee of the MKP and made a Secretary of State in the first post-war government. He headed the Office of the President of the Republic from 1948, until his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs in August 1949. Kállai held this office until April 1951,…Citește mai mult