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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1949,-
PART I: "THE PRIMATE OF HUNGARY"
THE
MINDSZENTY
the
STORY
The Step A Conscience Could Not Allow
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
of October 10, 1944.
Russia.
in
with the Hungarian 1 intact at least within the fron-rdinal Mindazonty svould not be rights is the Holy Crown, which shortly of 8,000 troops from | Arrow-Cross, the servile satel- tiers the knowledge of this fort- mede the tool of Communist pro- unites the whole country,body.
come
Britain to reinforce the gar- rison here. He recommends that the Colony's residents prepare in advance to wel- provide these men, amenities for them, and see that their limited spending money is not swallowed up too quickly by our very high cost of living.
"In
A Right Choice
ood Morning!
Australia's Prime Minister is all for a Pacife Pact, Chifley, of emirse, for Europeans.
China's Finance Minister has resigned. Even the printing pressen had been mostly captured. What was there left for him?
Perhaps these days, in that destroyer off
to call Woosung, him the Admiralissimo would be more apt?
Shanghal pollco and milltary have suggested that the populaco store 41D supplies for several months. To "Operation Squirrel" with the Rods knocking on the door, the answer is plainly "Nutel"
Air We Are
↓
Down by the village of Name
Sho What
We will build the Airport that
Time Forgot.
Instead of our Jinxy we'll have
Jolly Good Jong
(Though it'll be slow, anys Mr.
MODA..)
Fifty million bricks, they say, WII disappear thoro by blua
Dear Bay
But we'll have a field from
which all
can fly (On some date which we'd wiser
not speckly!)
When we've talked it out with
the "local folk"
And even that no-precious rice-
bowl's broke,
Called for the tenders with much
to-do
And Anally finished with bolly-
hao,
Boy, I'll be
holicars
because the U.S.S.N. | His rights were laid down in pest, the 1,100,000 inhabitants of gratitude"
to St. Greater had released the Hungarian pri- legislation dating back capital-including Budapest, the figure is nearer to a sdners-of-war. The Russian and Stephen and the eleventh century. million-and-a-half-together with Russian-controlled Ilungarian Ho is the solo person entitled to
much the the refugees from Upper Hun- Press gave
spaco to this crown a king, and thereby is in with the the magnamity. "Have they been ro- Immediate relationship gary, the territory between Danube and the Tinzn, and Bou- leased?" asked the Cardinal. "Holy Crown of Hungary and the whole constitutional principle con- is natural that the prophe- thern Hungary are crowded into never knew they had come home."
The constitutional replied the
nected reporter.
with it, tic representative of tradi-Transdanubia, the destruction will "Oh yes,"
him a showed
copy of idea of the Hungarian Holy Crown tians of St. Stephen, of the be oven more horrible, the res- and
Uj Szo, the Red Army daily, is a unique creation of Hungarian even more terrible. Hungarian consciousness in our potty hope that the change "Look here," said Mindszenty, law, whose roots go back to the historical mission, the inflex- ble guardian of Catholic deg-of regime would turn the fortunes will declare my gratitude when fourteenth century. It was fally vory developed by Stephon Verboczy, in fulfilment? the last prisoner-of-war, nny of war brought
written mas, the admirer of the resist-
the past fortnight an even private and every officer, hay his famous Tripartitum, the German ance shown by
part of Hungarian soli has arrived on Hungarian soil. But in the sixteenth century. In ila Cardinals Faulhaber, von Galen been of essence the Principle of the Holy and Preysing should clash if we could state that our country the Hungarian prisoners-of-war Crown of Hungary declares that
дго still sufforing in
Hungary the source of all sharply
people lites of German Nazism who
the soil in a came into power with the help night's experience and events, can paranda.
it be maintained on the basis of!
The Holy Crown consists of two of Hitler's bayonets,
Hungarian When the
Nazis moral responsibility that we must
parts the head, ie, the king, and annihilate
the members: Up to 1848 only the our foe or be staged their coup d'etat in the either
was included in the latter; nobllity annihilated? Can we expect to de- middle of October 1944, he was
When the Bishop of Veszprem, the first man they decided to liver a crushing blow-without a already a legendary figure, was since 1848 It is the whole nation.
In the
Borious, grimly
Dolemen attack. Cardinal Seredi had do- single permanent line of defence
ce appointed Archbishop of Enzter-
mood of the Esztergom installat- with our frontlers unprotected, manded that Budapest. Esztergom
gom and Primate of Hungary by on those prosent were thinking and Pannonhalma, the historical with our army ill-equipped, with the Pops the choice was obviously of those ancient and significant
should bo retreating. badly-mauled allies,
the right one. It was received with traditions of Hungarian history. advancing forces? enthusiaem and high hopes by Perhaps Any It is difficult for most of declared open cities. In the same against over
it was this mood that expectation of crushing Hungarian public opinion. The provided the inspiration for the to see ourselves as doway, the Transdanubian bishops, us
World Powers by our war effort date was August 16, 1945. ted by Mindszenty, handed the
The address made by the new Hun- these
from Szala Government a memoran- the autumn and winter of 1944 appointment must have been party gatian Primate, always so mensi- lads straight
belgigs to the realin of wishfist due to Monsignore Rotta, who had five to historical influences; Home, from widely differing dum, which was the only protest of
yet ring thinking; while the other from serious moral responsibility during
alter-
made the acquaintance of the firm, he did not stress the continuation backgrounds,
loyale
of historical traditions, but rather underprivileged homes, and the Arrow Cross terror replase native, our annihilation, appears determined, unswervingly
and Let us reproduce here this valuable to be far more real. After Mühl, prelate during the hardest
the supreme Church accustomed for years to an
had the tasks of the dayn. Mindszenty shortage. They see numbers Transdanubian bishops, with Mind-Trinnon there was a resurrection, helped him in saving the victims suomy presented by the national "hot water heater and defroster" atmosphere of austerity and document, which proves that the Mohacs, Majiany, Vilagos and relate
mind's eye; alno of his predeces-a really cold apoll. of Europeans with large in. #zenty, Bishop pf Veszprem, at but there cannot be ono after such of persecution and in aiding collapse. He saw the past in his should come in handy when we get
destitute. Monsignore Retta (and, sors who had been raised to the "An individual may sacrifice through his inspiration, the Holy Archbishopric of Fate Bishopricing 50,000,000 Japs a year youn- the Miracle Man MacArthur 18 mak- comes, and
paying only voice in the midst of the paroxysT token income tux, eating of war-madness, against the Ar- himself for a nation; tens of See) must have thought that after City of Ras, from the
drunk with thousands of our countrymen have the Papal unelo had been forced of Veszprem, the City of the gor, all with a stroke of the enormous meals, throwing row-Cross leaders,
could Queens.
He sensed deeply the Parker 61... lavish cocktail parties, driv- blood, revenge and the despair of died as heroes in this world war; to leave Hungary no one
The crowd trooping up to throw hopelessness, their deep anxiety but to drive the nation into suicide represent
ably or sadness of the present which filled in expensive cars ing
to for the Hungarian people and for because of a principle is imposal- more loyally; no one could fill more the heart of the Chief Shepherd themselves down Fujiyama arO magnificent homes.
who were about to sense of worthily the thousand-year-old, with anxious care. But he also saw the heirs principles of moral responsible. the
courage to responsibility can allow such a Archbishopric of fine dwellings are all too bility; they had the
Esztergom, the the future in which he visualised inherit, and the loving couples 1100 of the Hungarian Primates himself as the Good Shepherd, often seen only from the out-point out the futility and irrespon- step.
founded by
St. Stephen. Those side: their hospitality, is sel-sibility of further fighting. MEMORANDUM dom for the rank and file.
history
must have fell "Mr. Minister President, Is it surprising therefore that
the
many
These
centres of the Church,
hend, had the their
We,
tion.
courage to
annihilation.
as the
are
No conscientious
Rome more
the
there....For the
Awalling the ships from the
Moon and Mara.... (But what it when coptors and
rockets call
all?
It happens they nood ng field at Hovering hore, and hovering
there......
Maybe we'd better buy Statue
Squaret
That car offered for uals with
who are sensitive to the impact of fu* his life for his sheep; mind/who were just coming of age to
Frankly And Firmly.
raised by grandeur of
factors
in
wo
In
Nazia used
first
w#3
the moment
Later
here one
parents, plus
forbidding a few chaps who
does not
China. Words Mistakon
Im Dol Street in Berlin is to be renamed General Lucius D. Clay "As your most graciously ap- Strased. It would have saved
first Head of
•
•
road
tho
of his duty so the first pricat ay phoooy to their the of the country to stem "If the question be
when flood-tide, we reproduce the social thought they would be over mill- right do speak, wo Joseph Mindszenty, the seventy-of his finest speeches to illustrate tary age for world war II. a certain lowering of morale bishops of underglis, in the what
Smuggled saccharine, shippers may appear among the full consciousness of our respon-
illacovered, Hungarians, living in an October 7, 1940, into the. Basilica behind his three and a half years' have just troops, who may not be too albilities as Hungarian prelates answer frankly and firmly: wo ninth Primate, made his entry, on the intentions and inspirations
work in the Primacy and in public sweeten the Customs up in North enthusiastic about risking beg you and through you the pre- unbreakable community with the of Esztergom,
lite: We their lives to defend people sent masters of Hungary's des nation and the wish to continue
It was Ara integral
aald of St. Benedict: montes amabat. The of legislation and the Bendictus who apparently have no in- tiny, not to let the still unharmed this solidarity.
Transdanubia become the battle- terest in their welfare? ground of retreat; because this country's leader-ship by the de-same could be said of St. Stephen: Also loved mountains. The lose of the last crees of God, King St. Stephen he It is true that many resi-would mean the dents have little money to fragment of our country and with and the laws of a thousand years, palace of the Arpad kings, the painted new Archbishop, my mind lettering they'd just altered the
of The question of life-and-death is
Hungarian dynasty, spend on entertaining, and it the leas of the last hope
condi Hungary's future and reconstruc- no longer a political bui, above built on the rocky hill of Eszter the West to Rome, to the sign to Him Dollar Street. live in overcrowded
all, a moral one; therefore we have gom, above the majestie Danube, who reigns in suffering and glory "The Last Man" bas now left tions that preclude the re-
not only the right to speak, bat on the foundations of the Roman and at whose feet my faithful and Hankow for Yochow and Canton.. ceiving of guests. There are
It is also our Scene Of Clashes
to water tower which the Magyars, tormented Hungarian soul resta in duty to God, to wal
His twin is wondering how to others, however, who are
history, and to our conscience to on arriving in the country, found peace, The world failed to under-
all intact.
get past Woosung. it became the stand his offorts in the cause of more fortunate, who hold "Unless this is prevented, this point out your responsibility
residence of the Archbishops of peace,
out in the fullness peace, carried leading positions in the com- part of our country will become the name of the. three and a half
Esztergom here, too, tho of Transdanu-
on the Basilica
of his apostolle mission; on The human beings and advised careful the crected, munity and belong to the the scene of the static and mobile nillion inhabitants
watch-tower contrary, the
the words armies. The bla.
of peace on thought. Because of the blindness in clashes of two huge best clubs. These do,
In the hope that our earnest of the Primates of Hungary. his lips were mistaken for insults of the violent, because of nativo population of 3,441,853 will
Throughout Hungarian history Today, humanity, brooding over paralysing nggression of the many, fact, afford hospitality to men be destroyed and, with them, the words will meet with carnest con- this great cathedral shared the the
the the ruins of the world, raises ite we did not listen to him. He was in uniform, but with few ex-innumerable refugees of the other alderation, we remain, Mr. Minister
fato of the country. During weary eyes to the Rock of St.
voice crying in the wilderness ceptions the recipients are parts of the country; the beauti- President, ote., ofc.
siege in 1944, which lasted three Peter with penitence and con- John, 1, 23), and when the fruit commissioned officers, osten-ful cities
"31st October, 1944.” and villages the im
Practically, this memorandum months, shells tore several gaps fidence. Only the sternal truths ripened he fell in the great col-
In the dome, and the
cold North sibly of the same "class" as measurable property and histori
proclaimed there can heal hum-lapse himself, I wish to plant over hurricane sally and our nation, themselves, who have plea- cal treasure, and the last food sup-demanded the cessation of hostill-with burst like
mortally his grave the nag of the true the shattered.
tho sant manners and are an ad. Plies as well. This is the more toties and the carrying-out of the through customary pomp and When the sons of the world are loaf of tho awakening
glassless wounded on Regent windows. Th the
to Jericho. Crusading Armies and the palm nation, for junct to any party. The fact be expected as the evacuation and surrender which
Admiral Horthy, had announced circumstance, with occupation between the battles is
its rich and
rushing, head-long under the flag he was truly a Home Del, Homa is that in the ordinary way becoming more and more
em-on October 16, 1944. No wonder arnnte ritual, had perforco to be of the Princes of Lies, it is good Patrias, Home Ecclesiae. From the well-to-do families have no bittered; burning, looting, and the that the Hungarian
lust of shedding blood is ever his solemn resistance, to the unjust mitted: but the grim, bare set to know by our faith that there timeless Rock and the grave of
emphasised even better the is ong
to one power on earth against yesterday I come to you, my breth- way of meeting the rankers, increasing. For the survivors there) and unnecessary requisition of the casence and significance of the wall (Matthew. XVI, 18,) of tho there being no social con nothing
hop's Palace
the gates of hell cannot ren, and bring you the greetings Veszprem as a Is lef
left but famine, death Bishop's
ceremony. The national
Eternal Shepherd In the collapse tacts, and it is supposed that
of peaceless strife: they happily lead their own by exposure, owing to the want of pretext to arrest Cardinal Mind-which followed hard upon defeat descend in opirit to the coin of sad year
shelter, and
whole series of Veszprem and lator In
and Intern him, first in made the instalment of the head Archbishop Justinian. As long as Peace be unto you (John, XX, 21,) life in their own way.
epidemics, Moet of the Transdanu Kohida, together with the other constitutions dignitary.
Sopron of the Hungarian Church, the first he lived he pointed the way, de Admittedly there are sev-
of the fonded the "sacraments, defended (To Be Continued Tomorrow) eral excellent institutes at "It, with the evacuation of Buda-Hungarian horoes of the reais greatest national Importance. In the transitory constitutional ailua- their disposal, but few people
Russian tion the great bull of national want to spend every night in
from his public opinion felt that the mung an institute. There are also to ask individuals by name capurity. Early in 1945 the of the vacant sea of the Esztergom the tawdry bare, dance halls to come to their homes; in-pointe of the Yalta Agreement Archbishopric and Primacy-it
the stead of adopting the usual were still very much in the fore: had fallen vacant
with and honky tonks, but
the death of the great ex- well-known Cardinal average decent youngster isly unsatisfactory method of ground. With
methods of Potemkin, the Russians ponent of canon
law was the driven to these only as a last blind bulk invitation.
first essential step on the road to resort, as places where, when We have concentrated on tried to prove that they wished
ensure complete religious freedom constitutional stabilisation. Just- he has the money, he can the personal responsibility in the occupied countries. They intan Seredi had said in 1042, in find music and stimulated of citizens because..
Mr. offered Bishop Mindszenty a car radio interview: "In the person laughter, and chat with a Woodhead seems
to have to take him back to his episcopal of every Frimate of Hungary the girl, of however dubious re- covered the ground very well aco. But the bishop, facing the PRIMATE 2) tho Catholic putation. Few experience in his general approach to enemy of the recent battles and of highest office in
the Ideological conflet
to come Church
and in the... Hungarián any normal home life for the the problem - duty-free years of their tour here. liquors and tobacco, reduced could not forget the promptings of constitution are happily combined national prido and of a prelato's a beautiful symbol of the Christian In view of the fact that rates for restaurants and dignity. He refused the offer and Kingdom of Hungary,"
Veszprem by goods these men are coming out to meals, free passes on ferries, returned to
Privileged Position protect the lives and property half fares on trams and buses, train and peasant cart, and part
of the way he walked.
No one of all of us, it might be well and so on.
could over accuse him of accepting The Hungarian Primates havs The fact is that the com-avours from the Bussian-nor specially-privileged position in if our more comfortably off citizens reconsidered their munity at large should look could anyone charge him with the Catholic Church. This origi- attitude to the Services. at the situation clearly and making any concession to them,nated with the appointment Perhaps it would not be unselfishly, and see that all Early in 1965 he was asked to the first Primate Archbishop of practicable to mix corporals servicemen in the Colony make a public declaration that Eastergum, at that time the capital and captains at the same feel that the public welcomes there we complete freedom of of Hungary, by St. Stephen him-
religion under the Russian occupa-self, with the party, but would it not be and takes an interest in the ion. But he refused. He was Holy See to be a possible, say, to have half a It may result in a small wailing dos time to prove the of all dozen up for Sunday after- amount of trouble and Incón-truth of this assertion. Alas, he noon tea and dinner? Much venience, but the effort will waited in vain,
0
bion district lacks doctors..
tance.
The advance of the
frood him
could be done by ladies be eminently. worth-whic, was already PrimaLE, YA
on
of
of the
Apptropolitan į
Soon
of the whole Later, when bo
the
ted the i Pope thePrimacy hiper Red Army's "Donmanent Logate,
that his newspaper, volunteering; as they did in And we join with Mr. Wood- of the
extends over the whole authority ext so many parts of the world head in urging the wealthier published in Hungarian,
him in Eastangom, The Rasmiana country. The
Primate is the Fre during the war, to run real- Chinese to show some of had started a new propaganda mier, Magnate of Hungary, ly cheerful canteens, where their traditional hospitality campaign. In Hungary, with a ranka komediately, after the King they could meet the troops to the men who are here to strictly political sim; the reporter or head of state. His office is the
baked boy for a “declaration of highost under personally, and then be able deferid them too.
the constitution.
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