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TO CHINA According to yesterday's reports, the American State Department has asked more than a dozen leading nations to meet in order to form a unified policy towards Com- munist China. It is believ ed the move is mainly the result of suggestions that India plans to recognise the as they have Reds as soon control of the whole coun- try.
It is certain that a firm at- tempt will be made to safe- guard the extensive British, American and French com- mercial and economic inter- esls in China, and to pavė revival of the way for a
THE CHÍNH MAIL FRIDAY, MAY 27, IEE.
PART I: "THE PRIMATE OF HUNGARY"
THE MINDSZENTY STORY
sense
Press Restrictions
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
danubian
Good
Fring
Aboard the Chinese Nationalist Destroyer (censored) off. Woo- sung Sighing regretfully the Ad- miralissimo swung his telescope Southward as he remarked to the Captain on the bridge besida him. "Sir, all is not yet lost. We may retrent but I am never beaten." "aye, avo, sir." plped up the Commander. The world is round, and if we go back for enough we shali tako the enemy in the rear and annihilate him," "Well said," quoth the Admiralis- simo, "I see that you go a true son of the Kuomintang. Avast, belay....Let's go!"—Our, Special Correspondent,
vote being the number of
Mindszenty remained unshakable. | the first constitutional dignilary | fugees. Together with Liberal, He was no respecter of persons. of the country, protested to the Left Wing and royalist Hungarian He was atlit at Zalaegerszeg when Hungarian Government and to politicians, neveral priesta were be came into a grave conflict with Regent Horthy himself against deported to Dachau: A good many Laszlo Bardossy, Premier af lun-
entering the war and, through were murdered by the Hungarian rary, who was later executed as
the Vatican State Secretariat, Nazis, We have already referred a war criminal. When Bardossy, tried to prevent the declaration of to the memorandum of Trans- It has been suggested that re- Inland Revenue be indignant at being spoken to as war by the Western Powers.
bishops,
demanding ceipts from man to man, tried to anub the
After the city of Каезд
In withdrawal from the war and a used as voting slips in the Hong provincial priest for his disrespect Northern
been Hungary had
petition for an armistic. This was Kong elections-the for Prime Minister, Mindszenty bombed the Bardossy Government presented to the Hungarian Nazi multiplied by CONTINUING, the declaration, replied: "I shall still be a parish declared war on Soviet Russia Government by Joseph Mindazanty, digits in the amount of tax pald
priest long after you have censed without fulfilling the requirements at that time Blahop of Veszprem as marked thereon. to be a Prime Minister," A true
of Parliament, Yet the urgency "f|| Tho Nazis arrested not only of duty, a thorough con
Nowadays you get further with the matter need not have provented Joseph Mindszenty, with twenty-
ofils clogy, but also in rollhand than with an Oliver. scientiousness, is always deep in the Government from obtaining seven
the consent, a step which was both Louis Shvoy, Bishop of Szokea- the heart, and the more strongly It la felt the more disciplined and possible and necessary. "It is fchorvar. A great many Catholic Hot Suggestion
is offering restrained it will become. Cardinal probably," Cardinal Seredi wrote, priests suffered in different Hun-
. A flying company Mindszenty, in all his conversa-that Parliament, together with gorion Internment camps and super de luxe, extra fare strato- tions, speeches and letters setting me, would have voted against a prisone. Many more ware forced cruiser service the "most de luxe out the demands of Hungarian and declaration of war; even if it had to go into hiding.
ever offered the air traveller."
What about asbestos overalls to Christian conscience, always ob- been quite clearly established that Cardinal Sered's attitude wás served the greatest self-control.; Kassa had been humbed by Ras- followed in Britain with close
the ashes separate from keep Ele never gave way to Impatience.
sian planes, a note of proteat,
attention and appreciation. The those of the other passengers in He never lost his temper. That demanding compensation, could
Tablet published leading the event of some little contre- la why his suggestive power was have settled this incldent far more
article on October
1943.
temps occurring? entitled "Hangarian Dilemma." unbelievably strong. No one
The same review dealt with the
Laurel to fight Quirino? problem on April 22, 1944. A
Attaboy, Stan.... London pamphlet published in In 1943 undor the title of
Mao Tse-tung Counter-Attack; Orient's No. 1 pearler. Fairope's Churches againat Nazism also contained similar comment, These articles and
with publications dealt Catholle Church in Hungary, with the Christian Women's
dealt with the Press restric- tions directed against Catholics. "It is true that international tree Press. pence is served by It is equally true that the road to social conciliation is the free exchange of opinions within a nation. Here is the answer to the question why Catholicism does not progresa. How can it while its hands and feet are tied? In most cases it is impos- sible to defend ourselves against:
the charges brought against
us on all sides because we can- not write what we ought to write in our knowledge of the truth and by our speak it.
could help feeling that he spore
with the voice of truth and con- vletion,
practically than by entering Into
war in which hundreds of thousands of our country's youth was bound to perlah, immense damage be suffered and millions of money spent: not to speak of the constant uncertainty and the for- menting, unspeakable suffering caused by the war to every Hun gartan citizen."
Truly great men, in the service
"Christian right to of the ideas determined by their nasion-and such are always the carriers of historic thoughts are able to become absorbed com
"The Church has served and is
serving the people for whom her God ordained her far beyond her legal obligations; she only reports in sorrow from time to time the fact that In Hungary it is purpos- ed to exclude her step by step from to sever her by all means possible from her followers, the people.
pletely, with the herole fire of their characters, in their tanks, Thirty years a priest and teacher had cleansed Cardinal Mindszenty of all vanity of self-
дя
trade. The United Kingdom her rightful felds of activity and formed in him the zeal of Cardinal continues, was followed-i
concerned 15 particularly with these aspects. She has invested many millions of sterling, mostly in Shanghai, and is also to the fore in shipping. At a time when she is still struggling under the burden of the war, and finding export figures falling off, it would be a heavy blow if her holdings in China were to be lost.
Mao might agree to this, be- cause although he and his close adherents are flushed victory and already "talking big." they must be conscious of the enormously
with
Under- Secretary of Sate, is one of the chief executives of Hungarian
"Mr. Ivan Boldizsar,
the
good
174
for others and enabled him to become the sonorous conscience of a nation-and through and for this nation. the conscience of Europe and perhaps of the whole world. The Hungarians represent
a small drop in the ocean of nations, but they live in the heart
Intervention Useless "Our declaration of war," the British declaration of war by
to the On a which was handed Budapest Government on Decem- ber as a gift to the Regent on hla name-day. Through the Holy See I tried to prevent this declara tion of
war,
in a telegram that all in-
of Europe; the current of history replied the Secretary of State, was now useless as this
A
is now
A
In Shangliai there is now the Bund dance.
Camret Schlachta, the Hun-
the
Gullible
under the leadership of Travels of Gullible (continued)
After three years in the land of garlan Holy Cross Society, led Teevee and Haha poor by the journalist Joseph Cavalier found himself no nearer the pro- and Father Joseph Janossy, mised trade than ever (both those S.J. (this devoted itself to the boys having gone off to
only converted Catholica); but they friends)
ond
the
flerco
all emphasised the declarations Geemo was left, who had never of Cardnal Seredi in which he shown any love for Gullible or took a stand against the racial any Ether strangers, so, sadly, he madness and the anti-Jowish wrote his Uncle Sam that he was laws, on the side of the freedom going off to see the Little People of the Church and the funda- who live on the shivery islands. mental human liberties. He and sailed off to those parts. strongly condemned irrespon- sibility of the successive Hun garian Governments.
German Looting
away
not help it if, whonover grailtude if the physical laws are broken. Seredi continue; "After the British forces looted the country with acle Man, spoke they kowlowod
Panim, when the Godfearing Jews,
their
nations
and
America was
air
and
difficult, uphill task ahead of and the Holy Virgin. Our Mother; their historical task; they were) gary. (This was Mr. J. F. Mon-tle of Budapest, the great hotels, in a fow
them to rehabilitate the huge, semi-ruined nation. Britain
is bound to ask for a pledge that they will respect sovereignty of Hong Kong and renew, the lease of our territory on the mainland. She may possibly obtain such although what weight could be put on it remains to be seen.
assurance,
It is not all going to be easy sailing. The United States, while sponsoring an approach to the Reds, wants
as troe
it the
homes of capit
who
up
to
never
Man
to
would
you
to about
COD-
Press affairs. Of him. we only ask for our long-promised Catholic dailles. In them we shall be able to answer all his questions, dispel
step had now been fully and nil his doubts and show him that
as the current or life
Irrevocably decided on. Yet I sfill Catholicfam is able to progress through them as the current of hoped that it might not go beyond
He found the dwarfs Had all stowed their snickersnees if she is permitted to do and life passes through the tiny cell- the guidance of natural law and
under the microscope. The lives of the breaking off of diplomatic
out of sight and were devoting revelation, for the
Individuals and nayons have their relations; that the conflict could
their time to what they called Hungarian pacification of
Each be still avolded, and especially that of morality and laws, the laws nature; if these arc violated. Bir attacks on our country could Nothing definite is known people and all nations.
When the Russians advanced into their democratic "front." "Until then, however, we can-
To be prevented." there is the same retribution as yot as to whether non-Com-
The war-time notes of Cardinal Hungary the retreating Gorman time their leader, a certain Mir- nevertheless de- munist countries will day and praise are
The star if it breaks from its
derful!" and the Miracle manded of us, we remember the
declaration of war the Bardossy German thoroughness and system three times, and said "most won- down any conditions for re-
elemally preordained One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh
Government decided to forestall alle enterprise. They dismantled derfu
the Gullblo graciously, drove off cognising a new Chinese re-
vanishes in the obscurity of space: the United States by declaring the factories and removed their was very pleased and sald the river, leaving ita century-old war on
machinery: they Baby. having been dragged into
America frat. Again gime, but it is understood
had, is absorbed by mud of the without obtaining the consent of the endreds of thousands, rob- some more gold from your kind sheep, cattle, pigs and horses by like to stay here with us and get both London and Paris would lonias captivity, hanged their harps upon the willows, For
morase. The nation which denies Parliament. Perhaps the Govern-in small and big landowners Uncle Sam to give employment the eternal laws determined by ment thought that
little types who prefer specific guarantees there they that carried us away
human nature, the right to free-] far away and that therefore this impartially; they blow up bridges to these sweet from the Reds before estab-captive required of us a song.
under tranformation Hungarian dom; the nation that deviates from declaration would have no pract and churches, set fire to two houses have undergone such a remark- The majority of lishing relations with them.
wheat loving care?" There is an even chance that i Catholics and of the whole Hun- the course of centuries excludes | ical consequences for us; on the and two silos in places where they able
garian nation knew that the great itself from the community of free- other hand they were doing some could not carry off the
to granaries. The Russian troodA Gullible thought this an excel- guardian of its past, prosent dom-loving people: forfelts by thing to please their German ally. and future, its longing for free- its own fault the fulllment of its Since then often enough we have entering the systematically-looted lent idea indeed and it only need- Practical con- territories finished off the work by ed a little urging from his friend dom and its faith was none other historical mission. In the days of experienced the
the Old Testament the prophets,
plundering the private houses. Yoshiwarh to convince him that than the Primate of Hungary.
Provincial
manor there was business of the biggest castles in the Christian age the Church sequences in the destructive in his inaugural speech as Arch-
altacks. bishop of Esztergom, Cardinal Fathers warned
"Before the declaration of war houses which, with their libraries, kind to be done imitating populer and furniture, brands of practically everything. Mindszenty uned these words: Incessantly with the hurning soll I had two long conversations with archives, pictures
he formed the Undercut were the treasure-house of a con- So in the help of God, Our Father eltude of their conscious mission the American Minister to to respect the eternal laws
turies-old culture-the Royal Cas Company with Mr. Y. and became months an honorary I want to be the conscience
bank buildings, the luxury mar
member of the
the Batstizal and my peeple:
entitled "Hungary, watchman the volee of their people's con- gomery, who later wrote a book to
Unwilling the
Suzaibat organisations which have to knock on the doors of your science.
Satellite," in which he described fints, the
middle-class civilisation and souls; against apparent errors I
now replaced the dreadful "Zal- Beyond Their Limits the sore plight of Hungary, es
were destroyed batsu" the Miracle Man has wip- the wish to communicate to my nation | With such a mission and such we had studied conscientiously the not in the heat of battle but during ed out.
Germany's ally.) He told me that alism all these eternal truths. I wish to keep alive
Practically all Gullible's Anc a responsibility even the prophets the hallowed traditiona of our of amall nations,
watchmen of history and present situation of the first days of the occupation, country without which individuals their consciences, grew beyond the our country. And as he saw that After the successful alege looting new friends had been slaves of
was the soldiery's many injustices had been done to Russian soldiers board; Tho this organisation in other days, may survive but a nation cannot narrow limits of their nation and
up the
chairmen, managing directors, Hungary, he considered live."
their country. Thus did the pro- purpose of his mission to try and
furniture in private flatz, looted and such, and they all spoke to Sense Of Duty
phols of the tiny Jewish state rise Mind to be the prophet of all ages and
support the just causes of Hun the clothes cupboards, plundered All his life Cardinal stenly was Imbued by
The only thing Gullible could a deep nations because they proclaimed gary. I quoted some instances (the the food reserves still left after him in hushed voices of horror
Anglo-Italian ane the siego; their great preference about its iniquities. consciousness of his duties. The truth of general validity for question of
quite get used experience finest quality of his character can overy nation and every age. The tions, etc.) and pointed out that, was for the wine cellars. It wan
in the outside manifestations of an interesting be perhaps explained by heredity. Ideas which Cardinal Mindszentyour political He and in judging observe that the looting Russian thom was the way after
the vivial evening they loved mopped wonderful expressed with such unexampled
Boldiers Ho combined in harmony the loyalty to principle tonacity and loyalty in opposition these manifestations, the circum- "bourgeoin nesis" of the upper and stroke his neck gently with the middle classes did not spare the edge of their right hands, smiling of his father, the hard, taciturn,1 to the totalitarian regime of Hun not be forgotten, for they had hadanant's cottage or the working at one another, But being a citi uncompromising peasant, with his gary, the Government which start "working out a posi-mother's quiet, gonile, conscien- trampled human rights underfoot The Minister understood my allu- man's home. Triumphant misery zen of the world he thought it
tlous and tenacious care for all and denied the historical tradi tive programme for prevent who belonged to her In every tiny tlona of the country--these ideas sion and when he called on Bar. burst upon Hungary on the heels best to make no remark about
of victory. ritage dosny to be handed the declaration ing the rush of Communism
detail of life. Already as the represented the common heritage of war he said himself that ac through the Far East." This parish priest of Zalaegerszeg he of all mankind. And they were cording to his knowledge the Hun- felt responsible not only for the threatened by the asme dangore garian Government was acting is a very laudable aim, but
work of every priest working all over the world as in Hungary. it is not likely to endear under him, for the private liven For all over the world the ides under pressure, which had given them to Mao and Co.
of his subordinates, for the social of the totalitarian state clashes
Up To The Neck There also seems
to be circumstances and religious life of with the ideals of the democratic
"How the declaration of war much woolly thinking in every member of his flocks, but state. The violence of this ideolo
also for the
of public life gical war has never been exper- actually took place Washington. Mr. Francis
in his town, Zalaegerszeg, and the fenced before. The world move slucidate. But it is the naked truth Russell, senior State De- whole county or Zala, Though he ment of Communism, supported by that we are in the war up to our partment official, said recent- was only the senior parish priest a great power and by aggressive neck and that all its torrors havo of a small Transdanubian town, force, wants all over the world the boen let loose upon our much- ly that support of the crum- the so-called reactionary govern hallons to forget their history: suffering antion. I told Bardossy bling Nationalists would menta of the pre-war times it aims at creating a new, anti-and the Regon't as well that it have meant "much. greater respected and feared him for his historical, international, prolot might not be difficult to enter the economic and Anancial aid The Lord Lieutenante of Zala we can understand why Cardinal to get out of it unharmed."
outspokenness and intransigency. arian society. In this connection war, but it would be most dificult than we did give them. And found their position no sinecure, Mandatenty's voice was the tocsin Treo months later the Kallay tried to withchenw then we would only have for the parish priest of Zalaeger trying to awaken the conscience Government wound up with the resent-szeg did more than demand of of the peoples of the world. This from the conflict, but these efforts men in pubile life that Christian is the more evident. because in were thwarted by the interven- ment of the Chinese people democracy; he insisted that their many questions the great powers tion of German armed might, They because of an effort to im- private lives should be blameless who had drawn up the charters of occupied the country on March 10, He had no national and human freedom were 1844. When the subsequent Lakatos a govern- in Christian eyes. pose upon them
similar at- ment in which they had lost either by their public or private Hungary.
heallation in reproving any who, also responsible for the events in Government made a
tempt and the Regent actually all confidence." He added lives, sot a bad example for his No doubt it was the criminal announced that Hungary
WAS AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND-FAR EAST.JAPAN' that since 1945 the U.S. had flock. In this attitude Cardinal rashness of the Hungarian Gov-suing for an armistice, the Ger- omment that accepted the man army carried out by force a given military and other ald
force of circumstances and en- coup d'etat which placed Ferenc. which equalled approximate if it was only half their budterad the war: even greater was Szalasi's illegal Nazi regime at the| ly half the Chinese National- | get..................
Ita guilt in carrying out the in- head of the country. ist budget.
The totalitarian regime of the Mao is not a lover of for- human acts against the Jews of
Hungary, partly under German Tungarian Arrow Cross prevented Such remarks seem to us algners of any kind, for that pressure. Even at the height of the Church from playing any part sheer foolishness, It must matter, but he is also a real-the war frenzy the Church long in the direction of Hungarian BUTTERFIELD
courageously public life. There was no other Ita - volcs thickhanded lat, and it would not be sur raised a very American indeed who does. prising if he were willing to inat participation in the war way to demonstrate her idone and against these inhuman actions, than to join the resistance move- not understand that the temporise, while tacitly re- Thieftand met with immediate ment with her sourageous prients, Chinese Reds are exceeding serving to himself the right fall acknowledgment from Western societies and organisations. It was FRA VANAGAMO ZA y bitter towards his gov to expel and conflacate when public opinion and first of all in the Church that gave strong ex- Great Britain. The memoranda of pression to the deep, sympathy of ernment for the assistance it he has consolidated his post- Cardinal Derady at that Ume the Hungarian people for the did give to the KMT, even tion.
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