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wor
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1949.
PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE
THE MINDSZENTY STORY
its
This newspaper has not been too enthusiastic about the visit here of Mr. A. V. Alexander. Britain's Minis- ter of Defence, although of course there was always the possibility that he might Beirut had already complained learn something from a 1446 in one of his pastoral lottar of the New that certain officials had made a lightning tour Territories and talks with declaration to the effect that the the Governor and senior de-Armenien Catholic elergy could
of fence officers. It will be in-turn to Armenta on condition giving up all connection with
the Holy what the nnd subordination teresting to sec
See long term results are. *
The minister, as- a symbol,
an
Mr. Alexander proceeded
21
of the
The Ultimate Aim Of The Communist State
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
Cat
and
the
ition weapon
the
their
are namas
Wh
rumour.
the
also
the
"Season Communist Troops On the March-Local Headline, Summer comes to Canton? Can it be that, led by 1,200 Legislators of Canton, the, armads of eacspod Nationalists from Shanghai is planning an assault on the Japanese home- Jand7
*
•
WAK
The story goes that the ship on whkil in fatuating Nationalist
dont vrác travelling wrecked, dad the notablo found KlinkID With a salior on a small
doesn't wight “" dop starve," said *nah;
the
"Don't talk nonsense," "snapped of the VIP. "I've got plenty money,"
Party, self acted on totally unrobetan-Gatholt accrolly made soft,
nier aur und
at
even
the
disputan of the associations.
"The fact." the Cardinal sald
older
the
had
+
•
St
bo
in
the
fluence exerted by the Hungarian Baja." The report sald, among Roman Catholic associations and placo the Adio Catholica Roman Catholic Church over the other things, that: "the political to Hungarian people has always department of the Bajn police (Catholic Action), the most Im been determined by three factors; has uncovered An armed con- portant secular social association Hun. (1) The influence of the
Bela Prince piracy in the King
IV of Roman Catholicism in
"Many members present werd Primato and the bishops over College. In The course of the gary, under the authority of the
their Legislation through
Investigation and a search made Minister for Home Affairs, the reminded of the old Army phrase
panking the bucket, s and their conatilu in the students' homes, a
a large
Associations thus dissolved were
Or kicking it? THUS in Rumania we see a re-
statua
vera allt
the Confederatio Emericana, an (they petition of every phase of the
explosives and am the n'ity of members of the Upper House of
and a
a large number of
of association of middle-class un-ir Necessary. against the Church
the Legislature); (2) their in- won
been found. So far versity students; the Kalot and
"Experienced salesman auto- Carpatho-Ukrainia waged in against the Ruthenian Church through the fact that more than detained, but
the country's education about thirty perains have been, the Katase, associations of pen mobile firms Singapore, desiras
and sant young men
women similar post here. Can push any The Cardion! Patriarch
half of Hungary's schools had withheld in the interest of fur- respectively; and the KIOE, anne of cars and trucks," been maintained by the
of young Roman ***
industrial Catholic Church,
tharona. It is already | association the (3)
Winding-up workers. The
of the that the studen
European passengers return. the been
activities oohesive park played by
of these the son
associations Ing to the Colony from trips to only the Japan say that the unaccustomed officer has fled deeply affected not an army
Roman Catholle Church but the Roman Western Gormany." On the Roman Catholic Church in Hun have been organised by
diet gave them dyspepsia. interests of her people.
the whole of Hungarian
They should be grateful May 26th, ary's history, independence and of
The abolition of the conatita following day,
because in The
youth mo
their passport. photographor for higher Bajai Hirlap, the organ of the becat ional privileges of the
this, in ho that had Party, wrote:
by the making allowances for bean created democracy" clergy
and the loss of their large Communist
amusement advance. concerning thin casa "new. In 1925 a book was publisher feudal estates only increased the reports on the principles and means o
popularity of the
Church in which have appeared in Rudapest was the most important part of
World federalista do not be is a highly important figure, anti-religious propaganda by orc Hungary, The Communina. Gov. papers are based on irresponsi- the programme, while the char- The acteristle principle of the asso-
Heve in passports. To them the and his arrival in Hong Kong Stepanov,
to con-ble In which
and false he argued rnment, therefore, had
shed clations formed by the political world's ono big backyard have sinblished
estab
children at this time is event that advantages must be givun ti
free centrate first on the dissolution or Baja police
was class-consciousness. which, mankind's Protestants and to Sectarians
hu nationalisation of the Church that this information was given partfes which has held the attention
the ethical Budapest papers
by a All of them lacked
play.... including a Rationalis! Sect, ora
associations and Church schools, to
of and
pirit
the Cultural of all sections of the com- the Roman Catholic and Orthodo, Matyas, Rakosi, the leader of the certain Laszlo Biro, who him
What was that shipload of Churches in örder to munity-not to mention our
enlik"
Hungarian Communist
thinga of The
easily-crushed The Cardinal "religious evblutionism" friends and enemies abroad.
doubt that the tiated private information. nover left any
Nationalist protest against the the Jap a vigorou
coast? His decision to hold a Press nid to Godlessness, Hungry is n
would realign these tips said Laszlo Biro has been in- party
soldiere? No, bananas, Myrtle... present in the phase when ther
the very conference yesterday there-nati-religious propagania by on
mement the opportunity terned by the Baja police as a rose. Soon after the
in his letter "to Ferencz Nagy No question of colour over fore attracted not only re- Government has mado a agres
tion Vendel Endredy, the Abbot person gulity against Hungarian
democracy.** the with
Protestan presentatives of local news- ment
of Zire, the head of the Cister- What actually happened was then Fremier of Hungary, "that arises in Malays, says that pillar
Suspicion of
our of truth, Mr. Gammaus, M.P., dan Order, one of the largest this: The papers published the after public papers, but correspondents Churches--which are all too sag
schools Roman
Ca holle
and rapidly making a name for him- to hrenk--and given them certai
Roman
which tuto
of tho orders Catholic Britain,
been in for journals
urgery details of the discovery
encyclopaedle know- self for an in
educational institutions | maintain schools
Hungary, conspiracy
the privilege over the Roman Catholic mate
of arrest
ale-ledge of the Far East.. America, China, all parts of Church.
called on Rakesi
In
the students, although the pollee aroused by certain
Even so, rod doesn't seem the ments the various investitions visited The ultimate aim, naturally, intain what the Government's the Commonwealth, and for-
countries. сікп
State's hands and dircellons were with regard school. As Dezso Sulyok reveals have proved the charges to be un-best to wear in your bat down Probably to place Into the
founded has seriously disquieted there. the manipulation of the Churchto
Catholic schools and to Roman none of them expected to
constitution. The reason we have | religious ins' I
'ruction.
Rakosi ex-in his book Zwei Naschte Ohne found
BiTap, the Abbot of Zire, who was Hungarian Catholic publle opin- hear secrets
ion
bishops, con- of State, but enlarged at some length on the plained that ho regarded the main at that time visiting the college
and we,
"The Hong Kong & Shanghai they did anticipate some
various methode employed by
by tenance of the traditional rallelove
anxiety at the attack not now contemplate refusing forthright statements about Communiam against the Churches instruction Impossible because its and the monastery at Baja, as
following facts, sion to this duty to give expres- Bank has never refused and does simply to show that compulsory character
curtained
are now being directed overdrafts" states an official ro- meant the Britain's policy in the Far is not
lease. Cardinal Mindszenty WOM Greatest imaginable
moral con. The Hungarian political police which
against Catholle associations?" Chur East, and Hong Kong in par- ardent defundlor uf
I'd like. (If I could be sure of The only way to put an end. Romanstraint and the crippling of the had a desaler for every
with A school.
time- religious Freedom of conscience. He spoke of table according
complete Cathollefam und
a couple immed ticular.
to the general disquietude for this) to order which to
on in the
Western sense, his nephew, ared fifteen. who had
relately. dato the polico MUST which we are beforehand in res
,༥༩? རཱུ liberty but also that he has been the de
given heen educated in the Soviet Union,
at that pudiating any responsibility, i
reveal to give a caricature sketch fender of all Christian religions
Bud objcc- If a pleblecita should only of the faith of a British cabinet minis-not
activities of the mature mind; and, without henting school. The dossier
One contained lively
Lefore ter responding to questions Hungarian people but of the
iegislative back in Sarawak, the name will about the bush, predicted the sheets of paper.
the of
Unless this in be mud-not Muda. Church detailed instructions to the local association in the House: you have a of all Central European peoples nationalisation
His resistance has delayed the
done any legislation chools as soon as the politic and police: at what hour of what day slept are taken,
would be to be here and ask right
the school in of realisation
TCB must ruid Communist nnti.
Mayers of Cyprus sald the Hungarian people should be they
offensive to the to arbitrary and
Britain to plens, not about things, but you don't religious
alonc
what weapons were to found ripe for it.
question
of liberty. idea
Forcible action that they wanted but alan in Czecho
bo discovered and where they for a moment expect that I Hungary
Tactical Principle
lacking and
concrete evidence Thay don't take the precautions shall answer them, do you? slovakia and in Poland, and thus
he represented the destiny of al The Hungarian Communist Gov: were to be found, and the names taken on the basis of organised hand the island back to Greece. of the persons to be arrested in The "China Mail"
has Catholic and non-Catholic peoples ernment also employed another connection with the "conspiracy." would be a
cy." would be a disastrous act on the about screening their local politi-
cians that we do, evidently, totalitarian govern. given considerable space to under the oppression of Com additional tactical principle. The o'her sheet was the copy of part
mont. Roman Catholicism had
tho its three-year fight report to be sent to the news-
If we can't agree on Buch a report of this conference, munism. In the mutual polical through
full always protested against the In the
containing antagonisms In case our readers can see Central Europe every single ex-
history of galast Catholicism it continued papers.
pre principle of unanimity we can wo are once to urge the necessity of an agree-
protest against the always go in for magnanimity, something in it that we our pansive great power has always mont between Church and State. I story" and which had to be sent ects, and
the rights of our of lip to the tocal newspaper as well as forced to 80 In order to pay p
Good comrades must surely selves do not. It is difficult tried to act on the principle of It did
assoctations on the grounds of constitutionalism and to the Szabad Nep of Hadapent, suppres to find a single straightfor-Divide and Rulo" and, by ex-service to
the various the dissen
dissensions as a gesture towards the Han
Han which is the national daily of the unprove
In the Communist Party.
of quoting foreign exchango Baja unproved suspicions of individual deplore the Felping radio's habit ward remark that means
garian public which, red to force
was members."" the whole, on
flasco
Biro wh Laszio anything. Certainly the unity under is con
is constitutional and traditionat.]
At that flma democratically-dealing for the month in bloated however, was actually
sent opportunity of protesting against the ernment's policy to avoid in- desirable that these peoples should followed in a
the raid when
the violations of the rights of the
us" "adociations transparent manner, for whenever for exper- volvement in
with profit by their own bitter war
lence and learn not only to have the Church was deprived of an off the communique to the paper Chuech in the Hungarian Parlia dangerous for democracy.
As
Minister result of in bungling the China, while at the same
Government repo a greater faith in their respective important right the
Was
published without ment. Thus, Tibor Ham, a memaid farther that the time defending its own ter- religions but also
the directors: Of sense of invariably announced +
willing report agreement the police having "discovered the Church in the Hungarian Farlin- and quoted to conclude
ber of the Smallholders' Party, the Actio Catholica to send him ritory. This is doubtless spontaneous co-operation. perfectly true, but like a pre- Champion Of Liberty with, the Church. Just before the conspiracy" according to the who was later arrested in con- their rules although he ought to Government issued an order to time-table. Thanks. to the insin-
mnection with the conspiracy which
which be aware that the Action Catholia vious statement about Little Cardinal Mindszenty, a modern curtail roligious liberty it arranged tence of the abbot and to some liquidator Ferencz Nagy, the throughout the world is not.
really father of the Church, in The
in weakness
the Communist
an integrat unit Premier, said in Parliament that an association but Press campaign-an old Com- Boy Blue blowing his horn,
champion of total religious munlat trick-which it has lost something of its liberty. He saw his life's task no
rag the Minister for the Interior had part and executive of the Roman comic atory was published all
#no gathority to dissolve asso Catholic Church. novelty.
in retreating step by step in the two "anti-democratie" conspiracies, ovor the country. Finally, all
investigation, clations of a religious character possible that Mr. faen of Communism and thereby in the spring of 1940 the first these It is
ол casce, Alexander has been so long defending some part of the free-
Press campaign was launched boiled down to a few remarks and dom of the Church, but in defen- against the Church schools.
of mutterings
017- in politics that he finds it ding it integrally. In his prest The police itself organised "con which had been twisted or dificult to give a direct an- dential speech on November 7.spiracies" in Roman Catholic understood, to a few Naz! pro- swer to a question in public, Jociety schools and hid a few weapons pagarin sheets or new but if he did not already ap
which is a place among !
In order to prove that the left over from the period of
to- masters and pupils had been preciate the fact, he should Catholic Church in
man domination in Hungary, Hungary plotting an armed revolt agains: gather with Fascist emblems and have been briefed that con- always give
of the Church democratic ortant
tho Russian occupation and
couple Arrow Crean badges, to a ditions out here are not the
princippression
Government.
knuckledustere, homemade
few hand-gr same as they are in Britain.he expounded, the Church's teach
and when he ing on
be- charges made by the police clear- pistols and a few
the We are a mixed, predomin-1
hise various show
primitiveness of and gan to antly Asiatic population, acts of German National Social-
a Therat with a strategically import-Im against the liberty of the was a charge-
the to the
of could fall Church, no
poplin ant civil war about to cas-
that they had several schoolmasters teaching. at perceive that he had been discuss College of, Peck cade around our borders, and ing the general attitude of total worn mourning armlots at the Bas held in custody; and he was Baja College, only one at them, what is expected of a senior larian governments.
time of the execution of Bola да prin- member of His Majesty's With such faith, such
the former Premier of later discharged by the People's hopefulness of
A similar harge Court at Deztergom for the sim
charges government is not diploma- ciples and such his downfall, against the pupils of the Premen-plo reason ilc side-stepping of, issues Cardinal Mindszenty accepted the trein llegilored t they rainst him could not be main- but a bold, clear-cut outlin- challenge to fight and to suffer had hung Fascist marches
tained. The Church schools, there- ing of an inflexible purpose. persecution. His courage has no the day Foreng Szalasy, the Nazi fore, emerged with a clean sheet The matter can be put into parallel in all Hungarian history: head of the Hungarian state, was
his defeat is perhaps the prelude ranged. A third charge was clumsily contrived against them. perspective if one contrasts to the mast gigantle persecution trumped up against the
was on atheist and cornequently of diycover a "conspiracylped two to examine carafully, the suspect that the Brookes are not wanted
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minister said it was, his gov- Its own rule. It would be highly This tactical line and on-forgotten topce official-hadi minded members s'il had the imperialist Yankoo dollars
спо
to im-
itu
D
Party
to mobilise the police minder
ended in the discovery of one or
invariably Party organisation, this
their tactical
The
the
af
schoolmasters
as a tule,
against Auth
Cistercians
DO
pupila another Roman Cathelia
dumpr.
Was
picked up from army An official in- instituted
against
that
this lack-lustré display with of the Church in all the history | of you College at Vacs. the campaign spolt tha and for
the probable performance of
a War Minister in Glad- stone's or. Disraeli's cabinet
in the same situation.
Admittedly Mr. Alexander violence. In their promotion of of Magyarovar were accused of were found
hiding Fascist Compistedin
Jotalitarianism the
from the shameful campaign #0 End Of Associations Most unfortunately, however, of Christendom itself.
school, The fight against the Churches,
reamely, that they dropped Fa
In the which Inter on persecution of the Churches, was students of the
chuchete cist emblems in the siroots. The the Church associations.
Parist College Ladles of two
late spring of 1940 the dead Russian soldiers carried out in phases of gathering
In a forest near the propaganda shouts had to be careful, and some fort the Roman Catholic Church and
Budapest, and third on pis'ols and Teres
Budapest. Boulevard of questions no doubt had to to the last because It' was the
the hool Pupils of Roman Catholic schools be carefully turned aside. strongest of tho forces in the students of the Franciscan School
way of the
complete Bolshevisa- of Eastergom were accused of were suspected of murdering the three soldiers, but, as Cardinal biding hand grenades, army
anooch at on of the country.
and ex-
Mindszenty said in his The preceding chapters have revolvers, ammunition
Pros on October 20, 1940: explained the popularity of the plosives.
Vain I as
I askod the authorlile to Cardinal, a popularity which has Typical Case 、་ Inform me of the results of the myself The most typical of these cases investigation because I
But what, for instance, was the objection to commenting on whether the Colony's de fence position is better now than it was in 19417 Sure- no precedent in Hungarian his
tory, popularity which sur
jaga Archbishop Ugrin, after
the
newspapers,
other weapons. Finally,
beenuse
which appear
Ham
they cannot be classed (To be continued an tomorrow)
Cos
Y'
ARMOUTH
zad
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GIN
COATES
TRAD
GIN
to
the
CALDBECK'S
ly it was easy--and diplom passed the loyalty with which the of "conspiracy," however, hap was interested and wished tle-to say it is, and explain people of Hungary mounded panod in Bals. The Dudapest discuss it with my lawyers." The why
newspaper Vilagoreng, oppled by findings were never published.
Pack The Government Mr. Alexander wasted an vastation of the country by the some papers published in
up about on May 24. 1940: these unfortunate murders which opportunity yesterday Lat Tartare, in thewigth century, uri and Braged, oath out with the Press campaign worked
the bind following of Archshop headline ud hope he makes up for is fromport in the mere infileted in Large-scale-conspiracy of Boy were never colved; apri when he returns to London. Moth by Che Turk TEETEL KOOVE and studenta cogentest, and to mappress the very mucosssful
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