Pago 0
CHINA MAIL
WINDJOH
HOUSE
12, Des Voeux Road, Central,
Mezzanine Floor,
HONG KONG.
Telephones:
Editor In
Chief
24364
Lovers the Orient
A. SAFETY · COMFORT SPEED-S
RANGOON
1 NEXT FLIGHTS:-
Reporters & General Office 12312
(four lines),
Bubscription Rates"
3 months....... HK$19,00 HK$34.00
6 months One Year
.... HK$72.00
All nows contributions to be addressed to Editor-in-Chief. Advertisements and Business com. munications should be addressed to the Company CHINA MAIL
LTD.
Friday
3rd June
MANILA
Saturday
4th
I
MANILA
Monday
6th
BANGKOK
Monday,
6th
SINGAPORE
Monday
Oth
19
MANILA
Wednesday
8th
RANGOON
Friday
10th
MANILA
Saturday
11th
MANILA
Monday
13th
BANGKOK
Monday
13th
SINGAPORE
Monday
13th
MANILA
Wednesday
15th
Friday
17th
Saturday
18th
RANGOON MANILA
Tathay Pacific
PASSENGER & FREIGHT BOOKINGS:-
General Agents:-Butterfold & Swire
Bookings:- 1 Connaught Nand, C.
50 Connaught Road, W. Peninsula Hotel
Tel. 30331 Ex. 14
Tel. 24878
Tel. 56260
more
You'll have If you so by air!
time there.
MACAO
FLIGHT
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
SCHEDULE
MACAO
HONG KONG
3.30 P.M.
10.30 A.M.
5.30 P.M. 5.30 P.M.
PASSENGER BOOKINGS
KOWLOON
Peninsula Hotel Arcade
Tel, 56200
FLY AIR FRANCE!
HONG KONG TO
Home
London Now York
Halphong flonol Saigon
£158
£175
HK$4,108.80 HK$315 HK$330 £28
To
HONG KONG Passengers Booking 4, Chator Road, Tol. 81400
PARIS AIR FRANCE
£174
OFLEN'S BEDN., GROUND FLOOM LOPE, STAR FERRY). TEL. 28332
First Indian Airline To Fly HONG, KONG,– BANGKOK, CALCUTTA ROUTE
BHARAT AIRWAYS
THE BIRLA LINE
OFFERS YOU
COMFORTABLE LUXURIOUS SLEEPER-SEATS
SKY MASTER SERVICE Starting 30th May
FOR DETAILS APPLY
P. O. A. S.
Peninsula Hotől
NEW DEFENCE PLAN?
Mr. Alexander is concerned with such matters as the de- fence of the United Kingdom (if such is possible in an atomic war), the Atlantic Pact, our strength in the
the Mediterranean, strategy in Africa, revised
with India and relations Burma-and of course, with Pacific Pact, If such
а
new
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1940.
PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE
THE MINDSZENTY STORY
Independent International Commission Wanted
thousands.
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
Joseph Mindszenty Cardinal, Prince Primate of Hungary."
or
Barbarous Deportations
At
the name
a proposal should at long The toyed to force the Hungarians in which he asked the Holy See to proclaimed.
with his
re-settlement.
whon
follow
But
in
own
Good Morning!
Positively Rictous
According to an American cor- respondent, 2,000,000 hungry Chi- nese in Hong Kong may riot against 40,000 British....Really, this is too much....
The Czechoslovak Minister of Information, Mr. Kopecky,
a bit sounds
as if he'd been bought over by the Russians.
"Comet" and "Chevron" have collided. Wot, Star against Stripe? Bad omen for someone.
But com-
The U.S. is closing the Mukden
·
have been decreed sacrosanet by thousand years on the banks ofj slogans and the efforts serving the Great Powers and the United the Danube. The clroumstances of thair realisation are especially so-called re-settlement
Seems like the Legislative Yuan (in) emphasised. This compels one to Nations Charter, and guaranteed the with their authority.
are in
has a ven for someone who can Since the reality expulsion)
many protest most emphatically. November
marshall the KMT forces better. under the protext cases of deliberate cruelty,
The execution of the population But it's an awful headache of a tables, old of public works,
"In similar circumstances hun transfer agreement signed The news that Mr. A.V.
women helpless invalids,
men dreds of thousands Alexander, Britain's Minister
men,
of Germans, 1940 was suspended early in 1943, job which would tie you an' me In chikibed, independent farmers, loyal to Hungary, are being re- and the Hungarians began to hope up like that. Even looking in the crystal ball we shansi clearly of Defence, is flying to Hong "FAR be it from us to wish to Kong is exceedingly Interest- interfere with the ordin-curated priests are being to move from our country. After a that that their brothers in Slovakia who take it over.
ancestral sent from their
sell codure has been vigorously re- But after the coup d'etat in the ing, and will give rise to con- | ary home affairs or the gov. Ported by armed force. They are certain pauso this intentable pro- might escapo further tribulations-mon, have a guess.
state.three or four hundred miles away started.
Crechoslovak Republie by which siderable speculation. What-ernment of another
and are then "And all, this happens when the the Communist Party obtained ever may be said officially, the This, however, is a different in cattle waggons
rosounds with the complete power, the newa sprond as farm labourers, 'Bold'
Many whole world visit to this small colony of a matter. No one could be de- of the sick and babies have frozen fine and blissful democratie prin among the Hungarians that a new Consulate General, member of the Cabinet who ceived today by certain ex- to death and perished on the road jiberty, safety for life and proment was in preparation, accord-business visable,
ciples of human dignity, personal Hungarian-Czechoslovak agree- Up in those parts there was no is in constant communication planations and justifications of in the terrible cold. In the name
I beg you,
as the Prely, of life without fear
ing to which the Hungarian with our military leaders all the Czechoslovak decree that of humanity
in Slovakia would be and there are strong over the world is obviously the system of public labour Church Intervened in the deports those slogans are dally repeated minority
tion of Jews two years ago.
efforts to given back its basie liberties; but ago, net
at the same time those who were service serves no other pur- quickly and decisively against this make them realities. significant.
To the FBI, Elster is the big- pose than the work of recon- deportation which violates the "The heart of any honest man, not
of "sufficiently democratie gest, of them all-the one that sympathy eternal laws of God and all human beings, Imbued struction.
with Christian convictions"
be deported. got away. would The steps that have been taken feelings; act to put an end to the love, cannot but feel deep sornow The deportations did begin again. Cardinal Mindszenty once again show clearly the whole intention outrageona torturo of hundreds of and shame. to deport every Hungarian living
"Let the guilty be punished after proteated. In a very outspoken let-
Almost looks as if that missing tor in Slovakia from his ancestorat
the objective investigation and addressed to the Hungarian-235 must have been snapped Premier, Lajos Dinnyes, he re- home.
In spite of the Paris de-
regular establishment of the proached the Government that, up by some flying saucerer. cision of
crine-it needs be with deportation noring experts and its Great Powers for- the
forelble bidding these deportations, there
dla- Foreign Office, it made with the have
such action without any been repented oficial de-
Czechoslovak Government, purely crimination, or a collective basis, clarations by the Czech authori-
agreement Fi-Rod. tles according to which thu Hun-
time the Hun- whatever its alm or excuse, must on party lines, a naw
In spite of what is now being garian problem must be settled at garian Cardinal ment a telegram bo called Inhuman; a thousand which enabled the latter to drive
Montini, all costs,
Under times more so when the principles new Hungarian masses across the said, an MP of the extreme_left finally and irrevocably. to Giovanni
could hardly expect the Labour are so loudly frontler. circumstances and means Secretary of State of the Vatican. of human rights
Needless to say, Cardinal Mind-Party to treat him right. last be seriously considered.
often "I have the
repeated this szenty's fearless and inexorable In
event of
the barbarous intervene against any into the so-called 'temporary la
сту for help, this call for intervention was very unwelcome future attack on Hong bour service must convince every-deportations in Czechoslovakia.
who
the possess to
Hungarian Communist "Even If theso persecuted people justice to all those Kong, his would be largely the body of what is happening in
Cardinal and exercise power over us. Alael Government, if only because of out were non-Hungarians,"
This responsibility for ensuring Czechoslovakia. This la borne out Mindszenty had said in his pro la spite of the repeated efforts, his immense popularity,
by those Hungarians, who have that it could be successfully fed to the mother country at the clamation, we should consider it these cruci activities are continued, popularity, created by his per- Nein to the new Constitution
and selfless devotion to sonality our voices on even intensified. defended.
risk of their lives. The exact and our duty"
Mccording to the latest exact charitable work, was enhanced data a The burden on the shoul-authentic account of these events, their behalf! This was no empty
German-speaking. Hun by his patriolle insistence that the revelation in all their can- phrase. Cardinal Mindszenty pro-
victorious powers should ders of such a man is heavy,guinary detalls of these inhuman fested with equal vigour against garian can escape expulsion if he the
the make errenounces, Legally and in
a fair the Ger-
assessment of It is, the methods of expelling our task. and his time very much oc- Injuries is not
with the
and man minority from Hungary. The presence of witnesses, his property Hungary's gulit in entering the bourgeois, ateps cupied. There is no expecta- together
Germany ally of an Government was and provides a guarantor for his war as tion that he himself should be remedy the position, the duty of Hungarian
the Hungarian Government, which, | obliged
the futuro maintenance. by the demands of Nations United an expert in the realm over
expel the Ger- mean that he ceases to be a Gor-and by his resolute championship the human rights of Hungarlana are certain, is going to which
mans called Saabians from man, a Suablan, that he can play beyond the border, His words found No. Ahdmission. he presides. The form it to its fullest ability.
It's a bit of an Ark that they minister is appointed to de- "We cannot conceal the various Hungary. This complicated the in Hungary, no longer a danger an echo fit every, trus Hungarian re-settlement are now mainly cratic attitude of the loved and cide on general questions ofjevents: the confiscation df farms Position of the Hungarian Gov. to the country? Deportation and heart The Christian Knd demo- can't all go climbing Mt. Ararat.
and estates, the completo de-ernment with regard to the expal- policy and administration,
privation of individuais of their sion of Hungarians from Czecho- used against the well-to-do, for acknowledged leader of the vast Government was their property is to be given to majority of the population of this depending on the technical property: the carrying off of old slovakia. The
Catholic country WES "w" wants to know that hap- and obliged to enforce the removal of others. These are terrible symp mainly efficiency of permanent civil people, children, pregnant the German minority without toms.
obviously a danger to a Govern-pans to Hong Kong Government The painful cries of broad ment bent on the destruction of rice? Come, come, "W". Wouldn't servants to implement details, nursing mothers, all with extreme
discrimination, purely on the basis Further, he normally makes "Even if these persecuted poo- of the individual's belonging to musses in our country have forced religion and democracy. Fow could you like to take it easy in a nice use of advices from officials i ple were non-Hungarians, we the German minority. This embar y conscience to proclaim all this be deceived by its lip-service to villa out Repulse Bay way and
to the world,
both, least of all the Cardinal.. And of the Crown in distant parts would consider it our duty to rassment was one created by the
"Let those in power reflect, far as the Communists proceeded to ever work agalp?
confoundedly nosey about mat- voices on their behalf, United Nations; the Hungarian to inform him on current raise our
as these actions are serious viola- Government had the greatest dim cruelty strikes back at him who the next phase of their totalitarian ters which really only
imposition-the suppression of events. These, of course, tenditions of human rights.
culty in obtaining the consent of uses it. the to be coloured by the back-
Allies to
free speech and thought, the in- to execute this removal "Esztergom, August 31, 1947.
Cardinal, Primate, on the basis of individual respon
troduction of the informer system ground and current position
Archbishop of Esztergom." sibility and discrimination. But by
and the pervading terror of a that time they had lost their chiefgarian Bench of
In a pastoral letter to the Hun-ubiquitous police, thene all-100-
According to the now Chinese of the writers, and a balanced
"But we, the community of moral argument
Bishops the famillar Nazi methods which no army pay scale a Chinese pri- Hungarian Catholics, have every Czechoslovak
against
Cardinal following detailed facts about the ideological jargon could make vate gets five silver dollars and right to cry for justice from the Blindszenty topk
oral Suabian re-settlement were given: com other than they were they general 10. Now that does a high morel buttom of our hearts. We demand view of the mattor. This is shown
had to reckon with Mindszenty's seem a reasonable assessment of the immediate designation of an by his proclamation addressed to
outspoken and uncompromising their respective values. Independent international
Excesses And Cruelties
opposition. They tried to counter establish the mission to
facts the pubile opinion of the world in
vociferous at- objectively. This should serve as which ho protested in
it in advance by
him, This sorrow is only heightened tempts to discredit
injustices
to him and tributing
ulterior
picture is usually only to be obtained from comments by itinerant back-bench MP's and the articles of newspaper correspondents.
However, it is unusual for
a Cabinet minister to travel
10,000 miles to a small outpost
of the Empire to see for him-
self. For one thing, no one expects him to be personally
WO
cruelly.
Cry For Justice
per-
com-
raise
action.
equal
Does
that
of
"Blberia, Here I Come!"
In the new German "People's Congress" a single voice shouted
for East Germany,
Why, there in the heart of that big, beautiful Juicy. Red apple a lone miserable, biased, bored
reactionary, fascist
worm!
L
Why be so
the Chinese, you know....
by
nt
un Karywhere,
concern
was
It is undeniable, basis for the just intervention of measure against the arbitrary ex
of the Slovakian Han- by the exocases, pulsion the United Nations in order to garians from Slovakia and of the cruelties of the execution of these Christlan, anti-democratic motives, there was a strongly developed protect peace and human rights. German minority from Hungary, measures, it is but rarely that the Their exasperation grew as, they caste system based on birth and 5.0.3.1
an un-class a new caste system authorised to grant failed to goad him into both of which he considered con- committee "May God grant that those who trary to natural law. He protested exceptions puis in an appearance.
reply. They brought developed after the "liberation" bols. * purely him overy charge, no on
party possesses the power and are res against forcible resettlements as There is no time for proper in
how absurd, which they Gradually things developed in in deciding vestigation; only a few hours are
ปี
clork
capable of making skilled ob- ponsible for its Just application to means to be employed The Hun- allowed for packing bare neces-imaginod might serve their pur-such a way that under the en servations on complicated God should open their hearts to national differences.
present cry for help! matters, and for another, he "sztergom, December 14, 1946. garlan Bench of Bishops further sites. The wealthier people are pose; every charge except the true forced membership system of the
further issued a pastoral letter deported by proference and with one: that he was the champion and trade unions a worker or "In the name of Hungarian on October 2, 1947, in which it deliberate selection; not criminals defender of individual liberty, the could only obtain a position (or Catholics, in accordance with the desision of the Bench of protested in the name of natural of whom several have been loft inveterato opponent of class
obtained) if he was a member of law against both mans deporta- undisturbed. There are certain in party domination. Bishops,
The idea criminals
of true democracy one of the workers' parties; or tions. This, too, shows Cardinal fluences which free such Joseph Mindszenty Mindszenty's
high
that anyone if, outside them, he still belonged moral con- in the last moment, removing them equally condemns Cardinal, Prince Primate,
In should be able to obtain a better to one of the coalition parties and ception; without bias or prejudica from the transport vehicles.
is likely to meet only the highest government officials and most prominent business- men, all of whose views he could obtain and examine
plon for halp to the Czechoslovak Bench of Bishops, begging them
frequently since coming into make power, but mostly to such ac cessible places with good food and unrationed plenty as New York and Paris. They have the legal right to use some of the taxpayers' money for such worthy excursions.
Promoting Peace"/
contatto In the
or be accure in a position already
VACATION!
WITH B. & S. TO HELP YOU.
ROUND TRIPS
while sitting in the comfort. Archbishop of Baztergom." he protested against the violation the case of the affluent neither life or even a bare existence and advocated full co-operation with able chair of his own study. On February 2, 1947, the Hun-of natural law whether against their claim to be Hungarians or basic freedom only by belonging to Marxist forces, It is true that Socialist states. Farian Catholics in Coechoslovakia, Hungarians of by Hungary. We of Hungarian tongue, not the re- to a curtain social class, financial
heartened
by Cardinal Mind-reproduce the text
of the pro- cord of
most group, race or party. Yet in Hun- To Be Continued Tomorrow) men have travelled abroad szenty's inflexible determination to clamation:
dangerous times as members of the civilized world take
PROCLAMATION TO THE
the loyalty movement, established notice of their plight, addressed a
by the possession of documentary) PUBLIC OPINION OF THE
proof of their membership, maces WORLD
any difference. Some are deported, to intercede with the Czechoslovak I am taking an unusual step even though their maternal des Government to stop the persecu-I must take it. I am forced by the cent is purely Hungarian, traco- tion and to stem the tide of hatred, extremely serious and immeasurable back to the great-grand- Let your courageous words be ably sad pressure of the problem parents, if on the paternal side heard by the Great Powers which to take this action. After exhaust their origin is Alsatian; even more have entrusted our souls to you ing all possible official and non-flagrant cases have occurred in inct- Mr. Alexander, it must be so that they may recognise and official ways and means I once call which citizens have been
the attention of the authorities plicably expalled who could prove admitted, has more qualifica-fulfil their duties to us
On February & Joseph Mind both inside and outside the coun- thele pure Hungarian descent on tions than most of his collea-zenty, Cardinal-Primale of Hun-try through the widest publicity both sides for three or four gen ques in the House. Apart from garry, sent the following cable to of the Preas to the injustices, ex-erations. Not even these are spared being Minister of Defence M. George VI at Great Britain rations and erellies of to who have bown persecuted by the since 1940, he was First Lord the United States, in order to
and to Mr. Truman, President of settlements and expulsions.
Germans, who claim to be Hun- garian and whose children do not of the Admiralty for three secure, the cessation of the terrible
speak a word of German. Not a periods, and has, therefore perssoution of Ihmgarians in
for among the victims Have been "It was believed thaỹ this would driven to extreme messures some knowledge of defence Czechoslovakia:
themselves With deep respect and hopeful serve as one of the up-to-date against
their matters. He also served in the treet I appeal to you about the means of promoting and socuring families. Bables perlah because Army, being gazetted out cruelly terrible persecution of peace; in reality if nerves to now their mothers are unable to care with the rank of captain. almont 452,000-Hungarians during the dangerous seed of strifa, for them in the excitements and Hundreds of thousands, even privations of the journey. We do Just what Mr. Alexander the past two years under Czecho
are being doomed to not want to go into further detatis. expects to achieve we do not lovak rale. Collectively, without milliona
any legal judgment, every ons of misery and restless wandering There is one means of staying know. If he should return them has been deprived of his bocnuse of their origin and mother. behind and this. is thờ undert to London with a heightened human rights, property, religious tongue; they are being expelled about the whole procedure; if the appreciation of the import and cultural libertion. These rights from their ancestral homes and people involved renounce their ance of this Colony, determin-
robbed of their property. property and can supply some “Let me examine these painful) gumenator who is willing to keep ed to make arrangements for ing somewhat carping in our events.
them after they have been stripped large-scale and speedy des comments regarding the Almost seven hundred thousand of everything. In much cases does patch of reinforcements in Minister's arrival, but our ap- Hungarians are being deported or the person involved, coat to be BUTTERFIELD time of danger, we can apparent lack of enthusiasm is expelled from Czechoslovakia German or Bowblant
country which has only twenty-five longer: desarróus for the Han- plaud his mission: But if he is only due to anxiety last his years of national welstanca." The garlan na lon? Those krs frighten- only to talk with a selected visit be unproductive. We do territories from which ở thì dus ing symptoms, "And all this takan number of notables; he will in fact genuinely welcome Mr. pariations wks place have, only plaos atua time when human the learn, little that, ha, did not Alexander, and hope that his mind you the drat world, war. The motely de lite and property, Ute
belonged to: Chechoslovakia, sings dignity: personal liberty. know before he lens.
journey will prove worth merces, et - Linus chapter how have wihon fear, all those dane and We may be accused of ba«.I while.
Sed fivan is one blone for minder al desirable democratic principles and'
or
The Do
N..
COMFORTABLE, COASTAL VESSELA
TO
JAPAN,
SIAM,
SINGAPORE,
-Connaught Rd.
INDONESIA ETO APPLY TO
SWIRE
(30331
AGENTS: CHINA NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
1