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DEATH
COATES, William George Russell, ttled suddenly on 2nd June,
5
1949, at Queen Mary Hospital. Aped 44, Funeral service ut
Cathedral si. John's
4.30 p.m. Saturday, 4th June, 1041,
have
THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1949. (*
PART I: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE
THE
#
MINDSZENTY STORY
Activities Of The
43
Political Police
BY THE VERY REV.
DR. NICHOLAS BOER
Bo Borry!
Whr ravaged Japan 14 now eloved for reparations.
an
Addja Ababa Abyssiniana 03- sert as absolutely nudacious account averring- Asfaquonagan's attempted ambush and assault,
Yeah, a vowel Fascist fakeup! No one could have a name liko that!
Why not n group plcture of China's ex-Premiera? Might sell
True
Detective's
แ copy to "line-up", 100.
Bliuations Vacant
Wanted, for Formoan. First class atomic scientists willing to party ideas. Only those who join this exclusion would cost doubt tinely, mimeographed, among the work for long hours. Position the party are given or allowed to upon the fairness and validity of pariali priosin. The above restric-full of promises. Must ho remain in employment. Member the elections.
thons weru contrary to the peace screened. Strictest ship of the Communist Party Here in the, létter:
treaty, the basic law of the Re-Apply CKS Box....Mako Island, means immunity from paulshinent
public and the Hongarian Prons or dismissal. "Theno" ara facts against which the other parties
Warning Voice
The activity of the political also have openly protested and to "Mr. Prime Minister, police
were
was
门
expected
even
to
of
in
Bench of Blahopa,
1 penalties if they betrayed theiraten to the
TOM
that in
of
-
It is
no-chlied ·right to suppress and!
•
Becrecy,
Law: just of the Government's Rock-a-bye baby, in your deep confiscath papers was without a Atom Bomb's coming but you
Ruthlessly Abused
cave
must be bravel If one should fall right, on tho
top
you and Gammas would get
Mama and 'Pupl
It's only on atomle and Fascist, that a scientist can really make
This emergency power, granted during the war and exercised by the Government which is today called reactionary war. continued and ruthlessly pile. abused by the present regime.
research
foreign political or economie in- The Canton "Governmont" terest but always the system, and thinks that Russia atlöuld' repay especially the Communist Party: "China" for what she took out of That is why the two Catholic Manchurin weeklies were repeatedly banned
There were no psychiatrists in created the most fantastic situa- or confiscated. Force and terror tons. The censorship refused to medioeval
wifter. agree to the Catholic weeklies an article or newa item had been appearing with blank spaces where censored or withholding publica tion. All such methods of protest were denied: These restrictions, violating the basic law were supported by the terro
of the Republic and the peace treaty, ordered the trade unions, which
or
England, remarks a
But it must be remembered that
those days the country was sparsely inhibited,
E
Our Obedient' Servants,
Like something left from
cracks' race Some fllvver of long ago, Our old Colonial Office Creeps on at pace dead slow. What ein they care for Hong
Коль
Desks where the files grow
dusty
Full of complaints from plebs, Documoft lỏng" Jong miusty Where spiders spin their webs, And men at their tasks stiil
dreaming
Of the dresses of long-dend
debs....
HI, Ripley, here's another!
CORD
OVER
RENO DROP
ages of Catholle o to whom I concerned, such espionage is quite monthly (while the Church Cir- tlen, I was unable to obtain_per- (being, the, sad end of suicided
to ensure that should be able
means of
Presa
sec.
[
are now however suggesting }ed and recorded. In the sumarer every Hungarians, of peace has no raw material, for pan wanncing on a volcano and sitting and, calling the thing the United
out.
greater which a speaker of one of the
The
Jegal basis. Hungarian Bench partles referred Ju
Bishops without wishing to enter violation of human liberties. coalition Many people, priests among Parliament on October D.
into any political arguments or party struggles, or even intending them, were hauled in by the
Violation Of Liberties to inke any comment on them
must, as the guardian of morality AFTER MARSHALL police under trumped-up frivo- lous charges; and an attempt,
"Mr. Prime Minister! We bo- and truth appointed by God, raise various made by the use AID, WHAT?
volce againsi the threats to enlist them lay spies love that these conditions, which is warning Marshall Aid has been des-
In Catholic societies, educate a grave violation of the demo- disenfranchisement of the majority cribed variously as the mast
episcopal cratic liberties, will cease in the of Catholics. The situation is tional Institutions,
constitutional order which it in pecially anomalous because it nsordid act in history and
American bolstering of palaces, monasteries, where they to be hoped, will gradually evolve involves the violation of rights do. They never protected the country's | UNO How It le!
provide after the elections. It is imposst under democratic equality and the foreign markets to save the detailed reports on the inreates bis that, in the centenary year of denial of civil rights laid down United States from slump and goings-on inside these 1948 when we are celebrating, in to jest specially to the
the now Hungarian constitu smong other things, the abolition One fact is indisputable--that places. it is pouring astronomical When I look back only on my of the privileges of nobility, party untrue and often slanderous state- own insignificant ift now that I privileges should be maintained, ments upon which this denial of sums of dollars from tax-
2. The other complaint is the essential that the Hungarian Gov. payers pockets to countries have the great good fortune to be against all principles of equality. rights is very often based.
a free country-I can Living in
should find a timely abroad to enable them to buy hardly imagine how it was possible result of the system of espionage ernment the type of U.S. goods most to live in that atmosphere of terror organised by the political depart remedy for these abuses and avoid likely to put them back on and intimidation. On the telephone, ment of the police. Certain officials exposing the country to the danger whether at home or in my office, of this department mummons, on of suspicion of the fairness and
pretext of fictitious or validity of the election. their feet economically.
I could always hear the cliek-ellek, the
"I am, Mr. Minister President, we in Hong Kong not
the name of the Hungarian frivolous charges, numerous in- receive any assistance from my department at the, Ministry of to force them, under threats, to
Education there was A man detall-to this quarter, depending very ed to make three itemised reports act as spies in Catholic religious
Joseph Mindszenty successfully as yet on our own
the printing workers to refuse to on my weekly doings. These reassociations, bishops' educational
Cardinal, Primate, Institutions, and to render regular
set up certain papers or articles. business activities to pay our ports included the names of my
happens in Archblahon of Esztergom" the reports about what errands,
Who only Whitehall know? Freedom of speech and thought, and these orders the workers had way. We do, however, bene-visitors and their ft very much indirectly. letters I received and the letters I these places. It has occurred that
sent out. It was his duty to steal in cases where sich reports have and freedom to express opinions to obey, whether they liked ther
Freedom Party, Holup This entrepot, of all places, letters, carbon copies and aleno-been unsatisfactory the harassed in the Press are among the most the not. In this way the dolly of
maltreated. Important of democratic human morrow"), was silenced,
and in is dependant to a high degree graphic notes and to submit themy was physically
liberties, criterion of their ex- this way they made it impossible
It is well known that on general prosperity every-to the police. In the bullding of These men, caught in a trap, were
I threatened with especially dire islenco.
even for the Catholic weeklies to the Central Seminary where
views of the rublish Cardinal Mindszenty's. where, and а
widespread lived the police had another
one of the first conditions articles, speeches
lettors. many were told former who
tank; had to report
and depression would affect us
agreement between the seriously. For this reason we gularly about my private life and such an event the police would of any
Hungarian Catholic Church and Hungarian public opinion was not callers. Wheneven
aprosecute them for slander. I paid
Such measured remind us of the State was the permission to alart permitted to read a single cour
Let mo an oblique but keen my
cite as a humble instance of the interest in the dissemination visit it was the janitor's duty to
report whom I visited and how darkest period in our history, the a Catholic daily which would have "geous and true word of Marshall Ald-and its
long
I stayed. Thus my own un- Buch-era which followed our War stood above all parties. Quite apart garrotting of the Press that a3 Hungarian the active head of the Catholle cessation in 1952,
Important person must have given of Independence. They are in no from the fact that
acceptable ta Hungarian Catholicism was permitted only to department in the Hangation
a aingle Ministry of Religion and Educa As we have said before employment to quite a few police way
agents. Among the various person idoos. As far as Church circles are own two weeklies and quite editorially, it seems
the head of the Prese obvious that Europe, includ-naturally communicated my ideas unnecessary. It is vain to try cular, intended only for the clergy, mission from
was always "forgotten" by the department for the printing and divorcee tersely told.) ing Britain despite all her without reserve, there were navoral to sniff conspiracies among us; was
(ns 1 afterwards discovered) who we do not stoop to such methods. censorship in their list of licences), darbution or apletare post- efforts, will be quite unable to
in As for our opinions. We volen even the permission to start
cardy is
of Bishop Apor'a tomb. Ap- Advertisements we have still to bridge the dollar gap in this came to see me frequently only them openly, as our congress and Catholic dally would have been
order that they could pass on my
an illusory concession because of have an antification' would geature.
This car is not equipped with period, and the immediate views of the various problems and our few publications prove.
to the "Mr. Prime Minister! In the the Government's Press dictator-ve future therefore looms omin- changes in Church casily hope that all this is due to the ship. This dictatorship had two So it is ousy to realise that even any; new or sensational features.
political police. It can be
ir permisston had been given to
There is continued talk of a strangling paling a Catholic daily, it would ously. Experienced econom-magined, how meticulously, the excessive zeal, of, subordinate effective
be been meaningless under the Paclite Pact, a: Middle East Pact ists in America. including private life and public activity of officials, we beg you to take the truth: paper control and censor- Im- necessary steps for the elimination ship. True, Hungary had certain experts of the National As-high Church dignitaries and
conditions in Hungary and so on, following the appar- shortages and difficulties in the When I explained to Cardinal ent success of the Allante Pact. sociation of Manufacturers, portant public figures was
• watch-fof, these....
There: is oven some talk of matter of paper supplies, Hungary Mindszenty my views that if wo
had s
Catholic daily it would mean combining all the pacts into ond to onjoy the
manufacture or at least only in told me that epithout fear and molestation. - another way
They of 1947 an official of the
police
"Accept my, etc. claim that when the aid pro-alone the new Hungarian Gestapo paziergo. October 24, 1947.
very small quantities. As she could on pins and needles," he replied, Nations. not offer mufficient compensation in characteristically: "I should like gramme ends, U.S. capital employed Bfteen thousand people,
goods for the as spies.
Joseph Mindszenty with regular salaries,
necessary wood pulp
to dance on that volcano and alt can afford to invest in Europe Wit
or cellulose, papar control was cer on these pins and needles!" this
Cardinal, Primate, And how many undertook
this book of Ottokar Prohaszka, tainly necessary. But there was Archbishop of Esztergom." and the undeveloped areas of hamillating task in order to keep
In the West and
|the great poet-priest, bishop and elsewhere, no equality or fairness about the world up to US$2,000.- their positions, to be able to live!
Bocial thinker, were pulped down Those who were released from everybody knew that the Hun control system; only the Commu
the fate of his works was shared 000,000 a year.
of August 30, nist Party and its organs could prison
or internment were freed garlan elections
obtain
The two Catholle
those of Father Bolà Bàngha, One report balancing the ander
paper. the conditioni that they 1947, took place under an anti-
dofonder of the desirability and 'otherwise of would serve the police.
democratic electoral inw (which weeklies were often compulsorily much from the lack of Press fret J., the ofert
considerable part of
two, dom with regard to books as well. falth, of Bishop-Tihamer Toth, die to four, excluded
limited the
or even doing this, says that advan
In compliance with the armistice world-famous preacher and juven voters), while the concrete applica-pages.
tho
paper terms, the majority of books axle writer (whose books have been With the tion of
franchiso caused With tages are: the larger earn- Courageous Intervention
tho publication to lose shortage,
of pressing the political ideology of translated into twenty languages), ings that will accruc to
the past were placed от the und by the text book on dogmatica We cannot compete with Krav-hundreds of thousands
religious schools Waa "index"—on the pretext that they by Anthony Schulz, a Catholle Many American industry, the prochenko in describing the. work of their vote. The pretext used wore, Catholic text-books used in the motion of foreign trade, the the
cases-perhaps in most Catholic
Fascist Ilungarian political police;
and
For two year's were despicable, also obstructed.
and anti-Soviet writer of European repute. This Cases-both false
State licensing of thirty- Most of the Catholle books shared periceution of books degenerated broadening of markets, the here wo want only to instance
do not want to discuss with the the
was this fate.. This "index" maant not Primates Increase in political goodwill, Cardinal
couraguotia Intervention in this matter so-called, "blue slips" which en three religious lot-bookn
with Soviet co-operation, the moat abled, a man, to vote at various delayed and, finally, only nineloen only that the books, half to be to with an extent that in the end, and the provision of this addressed a letter to the Cover polling station, several times; it could be published, in insuficient withdrawn from circulatione famous Ibraries of the country of raw materials. From this ment, in which he dealt with this
edilions, because the
even private might keep were decimated; the granted only five tens of paper. these books and, wherever any Included, the Eungarian Academy This was hardly enough for one were discovered, their owner' was of Science, the thousand-year-old were book; let alone for thirty-threel internod. This served the purpose. Benedictine Monastery of Pannou tries is not quite a complete the system. The issue of Uj Ember texts unter which many Compare with this the eight of destroying ruthlessly all books halma, the Cletorelan/ Monastery ly, unselfish gesture; big busi- ("New Man), the only Catholic member, for instance, that five hundred and sixty publications of opposed to Marxism: Voluminous of Zirt, the Jesuit Monastery of ness at any rate hopes to weekly, which published this letter
tai no more than a single chapter, 14" Primata's Library of Esztergom. from was confiscated, nevertheless pub officials, three high-ranking guests, the Communist Sikre Publishing selentific works were banned, Szeged, the famous and valuable benefit considerably
five nuns, thirty members of the Co. within three years, in a total
single that Cardinal star and sixty-five pupils of the of Ave million copies-an the peta sentence was anti-Marxist. Thus!. opinion know
single paragraph, or even 4
~~ (To "be" Continued) such expenditure.
Mindernly did not remain silent Central Seminary, were all denied itself proudly proclaimed The disadvantages listed in in fact of the developing dictator- the role. In the noseterics and report. It is not difficult to imagine this report are also a valu-ship In Haigary. Here is the text aunneries, the altuation was much how hard a struggle even a licens able guide to what the U.S.of this memorable letter:
the same, I was myself excluded od Catholle daily would have had. "Mr. Prime Minister,
Censorship was a for mbre thinks about the outside
from the voters' list, although The
Bonch of Hungarian world.. Two threats to the Bishops mot at Vacz on the 84 was a high-ranking official of the severe restriction of Press free- Ministry of Education. Our nuns dom. When the Allied Control cen- investor are described as "ex- of this month and dealt with the on the other hand, and the sisters Cominission was dissolved, all
neighbouring or nationalisa complaints submitted to some of the
shaorship and Covernment control of English propriation
licences should have ceased: These tion" and "political condt. lis members by the Tay, members Ladies' Convent were disbar had been exercised only, n einer- of the Church,, complaints which because they were under police tions." First Indian Airline To Fly
Without specifically have caused great anxiety, event supervision as prostitutes! Under geney war measures which should mentioning Britain, there torment,
consciences In the
Clone this clauso spwenty-year-old zes have been annulled six months Poctable grandmothers were also after the end of hostilities. But port stresses, "The existence those affected. HỒNG KONG, BANGKOK, CALCUTTA governments committed to
following:
truck
Pf. the register, Everything the Government of the Hungarlan 1. Individuals who do not or was done to doby all legal remedy "democracy" not only maintained the nationalisation, of indus- Į cannot agree with the party pro- or, aprical against, these fantastle these Fascist" restrictions, of ROUTE
try does not instil confidence gramme are forced into the Come decisions sometimes a confidential Press freedom but even extended of the future or attract pri- munist Party; many of these find
The British qulla incompatible with their report that he did not intend to them to publications which had vate funds."
Vote for religious convictions to accept the sufflanthe workers' parties was not been subject to them in the résson, for depriving an past. Thus the Government reserv. colonial empire is cited as an
elector of his vote. It is the task ed not only, the periodical Icon- éxample of another threat,
er politicians and historians; to sing of dailies and weeklies but "discrimination against for day turn out to have bound well the authentle account of the permission to print and distribute eign capital."
him hand and foot to the account proves beyond sorship; moreover, all printed Hingatien elocilons of August 30, all books under preliminary con- It is no accident that this American chariot;
dopt that the present Hungarian matter became subject to conspr important report 'coincides There are many tricky pro Parliamelft cannot any longer be ship. Nothing might be printed or with the growing emphasis blems to be faced between, coundered a legal body, express distributed without the pertilion on Fresident Truman's plan the end of Marshall Ald and ing and representing the political of the Prime Minister, respectively
iwill
of the Hungarian people. Here the Home Secretary. So, in addi for helping the world's more the nety era of private in only wish to point out that on to daily and weekly papers, backward" "and" unteveloped vestment abroad; not so much Cardinal Mindszenty, as the con- even the typewritten and mimea- countries. But here Ameri in the economie field as in science of his people and the loyal graphed publications had to These Included caution In the outside, world chology. However, whether the Hungarian Prime Minister, bo-pastoral letters and the commun
Acilo Catholica which parallels its own un: we like it or not, such dollar fore the elections. Ife, called the callons of the
The certainty. The forbigher assistance will be essential Prime Ministers allontign" to the printed, for internal use. tends to regard the coming for some years to come and fact that the majority of Oatholica Cardinal Primate whe driven, to That bei excinded from their evade the logai State censorship of the U.S. dollar” is an in- it la most unlikely that it will alectoral rights under scandals by distributing the pixalotai lettora visible net which will one not be forthcoming.
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pre.
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