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Once again a British ves- sel has been attacked near Shanghai while going about At the its lawful business. time of writing the Blue Funnel motorship Anchises have been is reported to
outside machine gunning Woosung by unspecified at- tackers.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE -22,- 1940.
PART IV: ROAD TO CALVARY
THE MINDSZENTY STORY
The Sacrifice Of Life
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
ining
Man who had not seen his Cather for 20 years was astonish- ed to seo hla photo in the Prosz with calle in one hand and arm-
ul of notes in the other.
He is now trying to, And him urgently.....
4
Shanghai Loan and Investment Company win Day 20 centa share dividend, Pretty SLIC.
Between rice birds and gnol- birds it is just a matter of cooks and crooks....
Metamorphosis
dallon and bribery, they had re-t On December 11, 1947, Cardinal j'Ufe. And if it has passed the teat cruited a whole army of informers Mindmenty delivered an important anywhere else, we do not hanker
Eight persons were murdered and sples. Nevertheless and this and memorable presidential for its fruits."
In the Colombion elections, saya s a certain fact-they were re-address at the 92nd general meet- We have dellberately quoted at
a Press dispatch, "All the vie luctant to ите
some length those passages of the tims," it adds, "were Conserva- machinery
their ruling of the century-old St. Bishing Cardinal's speech which criticised dence or to suborn witnesses company. His subject was "His the Hungarian political system. Bit gory being in Tory down against the Cardinal. They
torical would
He quoted Yet, strangely enough, it was not there. Responsibility." have very much preferred that examples from the past; he
thed for these criticlame that he was ho should desert his flock and the Irresponsibility br
Hun- attacked; perhaps because they tles
the country.
try. They actually sent garian ruling class at the turn would have
been very hard THE first three parts should to him a small deputation headed of the century when 600,009 Hun answer. In a brief passage he by Zoltan Kodaly, the famous gerians were forced to emigrate referred to a small political group have explained what Car-Hungarian composer, to implore to the United States because they which sprang up in Hungary and dinal Mindszenty's real crime him to escape,
the country after the and offered him could not make a living in their outaldo was in the eyes of the so-called
every facility to do 10. For a own country.
defest of the Hungarian Revolu- Hungarian democracy. He was
whole month a plane stood ready
le spoke of
Regent Horthy's tionary Armies in 1849. the Primate of Hungary, he
principal aero- Irresponsibility in breaking ha
This group. walted there in oath of allegiance to King
which was nick- Charles was the Primate of Hungary, dromes but it
do- Flamingoes," had he was
IV and driving him out of Huts named the conscience of his vain,
nounced tho decision of the Hun- It evor any moral proof were
gary when The last Habsburg people, he was the defender of
garian political and
military October 15, 1944.
less fight but Jay
down arms peace between him and totali-was utterly innocent of the charges sad events of
for which he Was sentenced to
to Then it was Horthy who found
and
surrender to the Russian tarian Communism.
We have also seen that the clash life imprisonment thin fact would himself deserted by his supporters
been
Corces. Cardinal Mindszenty called State had sufficient. It would have
the "Flamingoes" "the
negative age armistice and withdraw the Hua-
of historical begun almost immediately after cany for hum to take advantage when he tried to proclaim ar of the connivance of the Com-carian armies from the - l
representati
For the the end of the second world war munist regime and neck safety in conflict.
the "Flamingoes" had advocated le continued fight
The HabsbTKA fight. But he chose to fight to the
And so dlich.
there was bility nothing lett but force and Its Hungarian Nazis in refusing tremendous power of fussia; and
this they
at one of
the
beached after bombing and the Faith. There could be no needed that Cardinal Mindszenty tried to return. He described the ders not to continue the hop
made of is
between Church and
and that
neither side could or
would yield. Communism identified its ideology with the fatherland and the Individual; it satisfied with loyalty to the State, but demanded the exclusive right to direct the inner conviction of the citizens and the outside mani-
these convictions. festations of
Last year was the timination possibility of any compromise or wesern Hungary
a blockade of food and gen-con cral supplies from the out- side world.
mas'ere.
that in
and
the
were certainly
centres Hungarian declared open Transdanubian bishops' appeal to theterans of ungary
the Communists FAVA ravages of war.
He then turned to the irrespon sibilities
of
present. the
He admi ted that the situation after
who'hor
out
was accused of treason
June has come again to Eng-
land... Toward that world of wondrous
bliss
Wings our ex-obedient servant From his Hong Kong chrysalis.
Through long years of exiled
darkness He has hid a lonely oge In some fusty, dusty office Fitted to his pupal stage. Now the butterfly emerges And becomes a thing alive! (Others lives "begin at forty”— His starts in at forty-fivel)
After that--Flowers full
honey
Walt him.
of
wander where he
may..... Shall we sour taxpayers, soul-
Jean.
Grudge bim 30 years of play?
Should
•
•
be
We are not in the habit of jumping to conclusions in
He denounced the irresponsi- such a case, but every shred
and evil madness of the against of evidence points to the Nationalists as being respon-
was eternal tragedy; for the employ-Cardinal Seredi's Simultaneously with
ment of force la always the ad- Budapest and other unfortified irresponsible because The adoption sible.
their policy would have meant Chinese
inission of spiritual inferiority. incident the the
should be! By 1948
It had become more de
All competent cities and the national suicide, Government officially an-
evident that
agreed on then
there was no nounced in Canton that the
the
had chosen the "Flamingoes" as agreement between the Ilungarian coast from Foochow to Man-
of the struggle. It was a fateful Catholic Church
their Com
political ancestors and churia will be closed to all
and the
claimed that the
right. such and climacteric year for Hungary,
munist State. In any case,
they had been foreign shipping. No men-
Church and for for the Catholle
have only compromise would
cour- Ignoring all the other tion
Car Situation Vacant Chinese Hungary's Communist
served the Communists; it would
dinal's 90-minute-long speech, his Wanted urgently, for temporary coastal craft, which are ap- For the Catholle Church it was the have meant that the Church sure the second world war had made ageous statements in the
the government of Hungary a attackers concentrated on this employment only, One foreign parently regarded as of small Year of the Holy Virgin, a pro rendered its eternal divine rights, very dificult task, but he doubted
They were led by minister. Unusual prospects for consequence compared with claimed by the Cardinal in 1947 betrayed i's mission and lent its nor this fateful responsibility one sentence.
also moral authority to support the had
Tildy Zoltan For Hungary it was
the President of right type. Salary and commis- been sufficiently realised by t
sion.
capable of Hungarian Republic, himself. centenary year of the Great War efforts of the Communist State in those in power. He pointed of Independence (1848-9), during suppressing human liberties and that after nine and a half con- Tidy, a Protestant clergyman, an currying on independent corres
with good American which ungary defied the might driving religion into new cata- uries the Church, for the first opportunist and collaborationist, pondence.
was a servile ally of the Com- contacts...Apply H.S. Yen, our A warning by the Na- of the Habsburgs and, later the combs,
Cardinal Mindszenty made the time, had no voice in Hungarian munists. (Not that he was able to Canton Branch, or KB. Chiang, tremendous strength of Czaris: tionalists that this was in Russia. Whereas in England the sacrifice of life, honour and free-texto a bout laws Ware cly con keep his position long, for his Formosan Head Office.
directly tended was first broadcast on
year 1848 caused only the cam-lom-and did se consciously, de-consu
son-in-law, Victor Chormoky, the addressed a ripples of the liberately. He had
acerning religion and morality.
former Hungarian envoy Sunday, but most corpora-
paratively mild
The Catholic Church had no
A man who won a consideraBib Chartist Movement, and in the great many messages and mani-
no free means tions thought it unlikely thut
countries thi European
estos to the public opinion and newspapers,
the
Tungarian Communists, tried Prize in the Lantau Sweep now. larger the threat would be carried
reveals that his first extravaganca the leading statesmen the expression. "I refuse renounce," revolutions patered out more o
ex Calon, a refi, to Prime and executed; and President Tildy was to get his name put down on leas out, deducing from the re-
quickly
world Ye these remained, to a or fought Hungary
se the scandal the waiting list for telephones.. involved his immediate Family. cent record of the KMT that til late in the next year and would large extent, cries in the wilder legal right to comment any time had to resign
prevailed agains ness. But by his arrest and trial on any legislation which in x Thus the Communiels served even have actually they were incapable of effec-
Lurch or he has mucceeded in focusing the way concerns the Vienna Govern
who were Austria if the
willing tive action. It is true, more-
ted profiteers ment had no called in Russian
ttention of the whole world on country," He deno
of the bad operate with them to the utmost.) over, as far as can be ascer help. This tragic and historic the gigantle fight between Hun- who look advantag
his attack on
on Cardinal Mind- President
Tikdy szended by tained, that no formal noti-period produced some of Hungarian Catholicism and Commun- economic conditions and artificially
sism.
raised prices.. fication was made to the au- gary's greatest national heroes,
journalist and Kossuth at their head. with Louis thorities concerned, includ-
The celebrations of this great
Exaggerated refrain
President's Cabinet, who had Licensed?
considerable "Fishing, sailing, bathing, gold, ing Hong Kong, before yes- centenary has been a mhall see
Clearly and concisely he pointed time, but, as we
In
billards and every comfort The part
Proten ant terday, in order to give con-
reducing
mint ideal holiday.”* In cerns time
Hungary to complete to consider hey were exploited by the Com- all who believe in Justice. Even out that the exaggerated refrain
all
as the final moed of his of Hungary's war guilt on the obedience, and, munista for their own propaganda
ak course, .by "ultimatum.", In fact, in-
1948 was victory, he virtually forced the lips of Hungary'e leaders had Joseph Reval, the editor-in-chief Finally, purposes. dications at present point to
Referring to Mr. Chifley's re- obviously the
the Hungarian Government to ndmit fa'ally jeopardised which the
Hungary's of the official Communist daily. In year
This admission was the chances at the Paris Pence Con-e
cent tour of the Chinese quarter a cold-blooded violation of Hungarian Communists had de defen
address, or rather the in Singapore, a correspondent as- By means of ferenco; self-abuse,
said, Quoting the rights of neutrals.
cided to liquidate all opposition Cardinal's arrest.
don't return. However
anyone in Hungary and especially the sialstar compulsion and tremend- polsoned national pride, dimmed single sentence in it, the Com-sures us that Mr. Calwel wi much
dinal Mindszenty of working for stubborn resistance of the Catholle ous pressure of which we shall the great ideals, sapped the health munist newspapers accused Car- ace that they
speak
Cardinal. was later the might have been opposed to
of the country and undermined the restoration of the Habsburgs, During Cardinal 3findszenty's coerced into writing a le'ter de- the sense of responsibility. this development, extensive Church to Marxist ideas.
Hoof denying all Hungarian tradi Francia Nagy, the ex- tions, and especially the ideals of Thanks to the though the dislocation might trial a great deal that was written chaping that he had planned flight. sectised
is the of such have been in coastal ports to inhe newspapers of the West confession you may judge for promier, of abandoning the cause the 1849 War of Independence, the girl of today prefers her men
showed a confused and uncertain
Czecho-T Hungarians in that yourself by recalling
for slovakia the point of actual starva attitude of mind towards his per months the Communist regime for the by tion, serious though the loss might have been to shipping no atood. It was inevitable that was not only willing to let him xet going an agreement was guilty, they clamoured, of} tail, dark and handcuffed. and other commercial inter- the
of
Won Sympathy
He also won the sympathy of
mare,
of the
the
those
In hi
now
played already
the
his
to co-
Musle when bright, Is called light;
WAR
of the
Royalist, pro-Habsburg pro-
So Bach
Must be dach.
visit,
•
his
•
gangster films,
Myrile'a grandfather says
ests, no one could with jus- bear some frult even in the minds letter was written by him under ion of the sensational Han, against him was made because of he can always tell you something
on and the principles for which was
the Communist campaign
der and vituperation should tification have complained of those who
opposed to about the Nationalist block-totalitarian Ideas, ade, if due warning had been Few people not familiar with given, a valid excuse being all the facts appreciate the un-
flinching courage and indomitable do
siander
foscape-but actually
at his disposal. means
put the con
Another
wero
the
terms
.
the
of populations. He dealt with the faults
tho gravest accusation matter how ignorant a man is, with tho do economic polloy;
what he had left unsaid, One he doesn't know. Presa which devoted whole might have thought that he would same pressure advising the garlan
columns to
murder have done best if he had asked Home lurid Hungarian bishops to come to
A new contributor to and Reval to wet o while the great gatherings and Mosers. for him! They even in his sleep. (much to the with
the regime.
demonstrations of the Catholic
were column who speaks the Doria his "speech All this effort was a transparent
Cirunch were not accorded violently indignant that ho endeavour to rob him of his single paragraph. And he asserted made no mention in his speech of annoyance of his Sassenach wife prestige,
to prove
ove that he, too, the right of the Church to criti- Louis Kossuth, the great Hun who cann vaderstand' 'I8} = 'I fight against Communism for have achieved by torture, slander, the Gospel according to St. John:
carian
leader, and Alexander going to contribute a bittle now combatant with both hands tied intimidation, and forgery, in to
back. For Mindszenty make their enemy and victim behind his
"Our Lord Jesus Christ faced who both played an important Mr. Stewart, o' the Braen, as Coipher, the high priest,
who part in the night for, independence long as his memory bolde, out, had no Press, no chance cost and seldom any opportunity of world stature, a symbol asked him of his disciples and of) in 1848-49. the British Embassy in Can- or addressing the faithful; thconquerable integrity and his doctrine. Jesus roforred himj
available on the grounds of tonnelly needed to persist in the was only human. Well, all they cise and guide the nailon, quotinkat. Hungary's greatest post, and thiri about his old friend
military necessity. No. of
ton
broad-
werd
"17 | of
cial approach was made, however,
until yesterday when the representative of
received the Chinese most loyal adjutants Government's formal noti-prison. Notwithstanding the con- vincing power of the truth which fication of its. Intention to he proclaimed could not be erased
from people's minds and heart Efficient Police
close coastal areas.
ས
those who had heard his words to
ihe
BO?" Jesas "him, “If I. have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but oil, why amitost thou mo ist.
Church, Christ's mystic
spoken evil, bear wliness of the of me if the Church
will no doubt be the usual and distortion, had been con'rived/Who-hot and the smith worked ayil: but if well, why amitest thou |
their
half naked. 1
breaking the more hope the hail restance of the Hun- resistant
was never fond of
blows
ما.
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One of the
the officers which stood by printable-the Cardinal did not hand, saying:
inch.. Perhaps
childhood A
High Pwordeat thou So one of the most corrupt
memory helped him to endure the answered and contemptible adminis-
storm. He told the story
1940 trations in modern times
Two things must be realised in speech at Szekesfehervar, evil, bea
the ancient capital of
Hungary seems determined to invest about Cardinal Mindszenty's ar "When I was child," he
he salt, St John, 18, 14-21.) itself at least with nuisance rest and trial. One is that the liked to drop in the village bedy, might also say, If I have value to the last. There charges brought against him, the
glowed falsehood smithy, where the furnace whole elaborate“ web of squeals from
61045 a long time. As early as 1945 the hammer raining armchair d
really in strategists that "a firm pro- the Communists had clearly re- the anvil. But I plied and loved citing to murder and const
conspiracy, test should be made."; No cognirod that, ha the anvil because it endured the should alleged, these charges
doughtlest doubt it will be, but this doug
ba opponent
proved. And it la ́utter could haminer. blow and did not sedes irresponsibility to use the fun- unless he wore removed
Each blow made it hurt cheon instead of justice and legal of self-assertion form pointless in an age when the
The more furious
proof, the calmer the anvil the hammer,
Having dealt with hia'orical recipient knows that nothing Karlan Catholle Church. We have will happen following his son that Hungary possessed, one remained."
the largest and most efficient regime truck increasingly furious Ged. For any nation to break with The hammer of the Commanis responsibilty, the Cardinal pointed of
out the responsibility men owe to rejection of the note. The politicst police forces behind the blows, but the anvil of the Church God moans destruction. It is a ∙only useful course of action, | Iron Curtain.
which
flagrant contradiction....... ช
We have seen how, by intim-and its great loader endured already being
4hent calmly, more and more if the adopted, is for all foreign
The savage and caminous attacks though in the great majority they firms to suspend sailings tect business interests, butaletant
recognise that, truth resumed with redoubled rege until the situation clarifles. our own' opinion is that the
if it were false and worthless, ka This may sound to some like Nationalists will not imposearly 1948. Of course, almost in a communal capacity sa be made, every ie they were even justified In backing down, but there is a successful blockade at all, let er he wrote, every wals denying and destroying no alternative unless, con- and certainly hot for any took has
attack; liv voys wore to be sent out length of times Indus lolens lleck the to Star and What also to the mains fath Communist Poll and the Cavored communi'y of the with warship protection course the first enterprise ernment aver the Getober 1945. Hata with religious citizens. Is an ellisena? To creato na irreligious highly unlikely development company will take a chance, "But, until Faisinry' 1948, there at the moment.
and the rest will follow. had been paume 152 lulls in the imporbia:contradiolion.. Something of the sort And world opinion about the take them they both most "In Our Own Country”
Incescanion after Indication might eventually have to he Nationalists will fall to an in. Is halpiess, rags the Communist In bur own country home considered, both for humantaven lower ebb than before, "wisham Parks
**Tilf greedy forum skaded, "the so-called p morality If this li Hossible.
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