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In Britain, Australia and Japan the authorities were yesterday reported to be in- veighing against Communist disruption of their economy. that Moscow, It is evident while expecting soon to con- trol the whole of China-and thus dominate the Far East --is by no means overlook- ing opportunities for breed- ing chaos elsewhere.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1949.
THE
PART IV: ROAD TO CALVARY
MINDSZENTY STORY All Political Prejudice
The more fact that Mr. Chapin may not have known this informa tion before it was communicated to him, or the fact that he chose to get this information privately from the
than Cardinal rather from the Hungarian Government, does not mean that it was a accret within the meaning of the Act
is
obviously necessary in a pro
serious charge accution for such
that the to show quite
встве
do with
regulations.
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
to
wishes
Good Morning!
Vessels wishing to surrender to
Co.. C.K.S. &
Formosa. must paint their hulls white and up- don't perworks greed it they want to be bombed and shot at
No run on the Colony's pigment alocks is reported as yet.
Bao Dal, who proclaimed him- self Emperor of Vietnam a few weeks ago, has now proclaimed- Ho s himself Prime Minister. thinking of taking over the Home Ministry, too.
That loud "Pooh!" and "Dah!" were from Ho Chi-Minh, the do facto President.
Today
It is not unimportant to point sence of the so-called indc- his company were dazenty and all the Filipinos.
currecy
court as 'A
Ignoring Of Principles
ters
Trole, weisunga-ginain, | the trial that is seen to begin will
bo
Way,
of
But
observer
Bone
the
I shall show that some of the Fuhrer invests the authority of trial was conduduced his own
person,
When The Lid Was Lifted
Sing a song of Japs, Sir, "Kept us Soviet slaves, Cruelly concentrated, Exiled o'er the waves"....
Who, repatriated
After several years
Sang the Reddest songs, Sir... Gave the Commos cheerst Little friends of Stalin Pining to be back! Seems to mo the joke,, Str Is.on the Mighty Mac
•
Not Down Under
Loudly sang Australia's miners "We will not go down the Mine! We are nineteen fortyniners And we toe the Moscow Line!" Thay said "Striking's to
liking
Our
Let the pore mine-owners pine! Let old Chifley get all sniffly..... Mediation we decline.
Every lawyer who has had to problems facing the leadership of ments by cortain statesmen ant
the foreign
They currency the atate.
thought It bishops, tried by slander and denial lows known how intricate and absolutely Recessary
have to whitewash Mindszenty, their enmplicated, and often technical, leadership in the administration accomplice
they're dancing the Government "The Hungurian Dr. Thierach'n den- they are. It would be quite impos-of Justice.
the scanty in-cription of the Naz! judge con- sible for me on
to publish in this book a yangko. Tomorrow they hope to formation available to form an tinues as follows:
few of those many proofs it has be dancing on the yang kwel Car- to whether the
at its disposal, the greater part of opinion as
"We hear the clash of arms to "Leadership in the administra- which are from Mindszenty's secret dinal's gullt on these charges was
prove the South and across the China assume tion of justico does not bind the baried files, which will properly proveil. Let us
and irrefutably to any Sen" "ays Quirino, President of that he did break the currency judge to precise regulations made tangibly
If we listen the lendership
of the
state, by
unbiased man that
hard and don't talk so loudly we The Quite apart from the question
At the end of the
the "Yellow Book" alra hear the Hukbulahops, pendence of the judge a word and friends for their
from the pears the following paragraph: dolences, floral tributes and whether that information which
hove reasons
appears was given to Mr. Chapin caus-out that his defence was that he that should be eliminated
without intention. His
for the above vocabulary
"The above documents convin- ed or could have caused any so
defence counsel pleaded that he his free though regulated deci- cingly and undeniably justify the charges against Mindszenty, and serious
harm of threat to the had not properly understood the sion
We will interests of Hungary, there was d
foreign dene) should. and
light on every pspect of not any proof whatever that the regulations relating to
currency. Even the judge seems otherwise he would no longer be cast Mr. Chapin vo
of crimes. Mindszenty's Kat had to have reports sent to
this point in mind
nind a judge. But the leadership of the cimphasised the Car- plata should and ought to give to even
evon on the basis of the docu- contained "secrets" within the when he
of the Act under dinal's "seclusion from practical the meaning
general rules to hav Judge the
tments, every objectiva We may
fairly observed if Justice is to fulfil its must recognise that there is no which the Cardinal was charg-life."
that the currency charges purpose. This is
is the object inter quest
Judgestion of persecuting the Church cd.
ere regarded both by the pro- alia of the confidential
or the priests, or of infringing the edited by freedom
worship, na letters (Richterbriefe) secution and by the
falsely and tendentiously relatively minor part of the ins which every German judge and have dictment.
Bloke writes us that electricity public prosceator received." To sum up, my analysis of the
Thus you see the Nazis wished tried to make out, but of bringing a determined enemy of the Hun-
In Sydney is a great public (u- charges and of the evidence leads to eliminate the words "indepen-garian, people to account."
tility. of the After the publication to the conclusion that no guilt dence of the judge from their
they Yellow Book" to the world in was properly proved, except per- vocabulary. Why? Because
and despised unfettered this
said that on the
can it bo charges, feared haps
to be their there was no pressure on the which are clearly of so minor a justice. Justice had
the im- swerve from Judge to character as to be wholly insuffi- servant.
unbiased courno of cient to
The first of these judges' let partial and support a sentence of
Nazi Dr. Justice? We need not waste too
written by the imprisonment for life.
The fact that the result of the much time examining Japan.
Were the principles of justice Thiorach began as follows:
"According to the ancient Tea- trial in the legal senso of that word; observed?
was regarded as a foregone! The Miracle Man continued information in secret
of justice the conclusion is farther borne out tonic conception that is to say, that it is informa- in modified form the extreme
leader of the nation was also ta by the manner in which
If therefore them
of the right wing regime existing tion which those who know of
No crating.. we are waiting... the official radio broadcast are under a duty not to disclose.
Bupreme judge.
The official when he took over, tempor-
Higher dough is our design. It
significant that in rather
It not introduce an atmosphere
a judge in a third order to
commentator
When you pay it, kindly lay it arily substituting himself as
On the dear old Lenin line. person comments from time to time for implies that this only of the betrayal of military socrets fundamental principles of justice god in place of Hirohito, and
it was stated that the Cardinali were ignored in the trial of Care Toceives his judge's power from
the whole of the Hungarian Mindszenty, and shall
Mrs. Stewart of the Braes was the gigantic monopolies are
obtained and communicated to the dinal
nover as firmly entrenched as ever,
and American missions compare the conduct of this trisi the Fuhrer and is responsible to nation, and indeed the world, to
on too good terms with avict with the conduct of trials by the him, but it also proves the close hear, while the trial was still in
batween leadershly
the fate of the her fellow choir member, Mrs. although in slightly altered British
of the Soviet the draft budget
(Sondergerichte) relationship
progresa accused still theoretically undo-Jemima Lumsden, What was form. Always ready to em-
and troops in Hungary and informa- Special Courts
cided.
her delight one Sunday, therefore, brace totalitarianism.
tion on the situation in the sub and the Peoples Courts (Volks and the duties of a judge."
are before their when the organist turned round "The traitors Perversion Of Truth believing Communism might Carpathien Ukraine. Both these gerichte) under the Nazi regime
matters are, of course, irrelevant in Hitler Germany.
judges," he begins with; then he and said. "Whit hae ye go doon A melo- Mindazanty there. Miss Lumsden? "Josoph give them more power in
The two fundamental principles
sce very clearly the goes to the charge"
Hore we
an extreme Right Wing deon?" the Pacific than MacArthur-
could speaking of because the law in of justice which I wish to em- ism. the Japanese
protect does not
the phasise particularly are flrat that Nazi perversion of the truth as Pehm,
the judge must be unbiased and regards the status and duties of High Church Dignitary, who bo foreign of u secrets easily swing towards the question
that the Christ, who wanted to drag the песивед The other "O-occupation nor information relate independent, and, secondly, that a judge. It does not in the least came disloyal to the teachings of
must have a fair follow from the fact the Kremlin.
the country into into ing to a foreign territory.
hond moking his defence. and of the state appoints supposing to Mr.
in-opportunity
up in cupying powers" are that in
But even
For tea months I conducted tho | judges that the judges must delitical slogans name only, so unless the
formation communicate
behnit the what the leader of the American people come to re-
Chapin could legally be called prosecution
ters, who wanted to deprive the wishes. Quite the contrary. If the plous sermons and pastoral lot it was
quite wrong to British at the trial of the mer judge is to be truly independent, Hungarian people of their demo cognise the bankruptcy of
"Becret,"
criminals at Nuremberg.d
...The vigi- the administration. there is sny, as the Indictment eald, that war
entitled to During that time I investigated the he must fas indeed the Weimar cratic achievements....
of Germany itself lance of our State security organs Mr. Chapin was not little to be done.
receive that information. An head | methods used by the Nazis to vion
bo subject only to the unmasked this dangerous gang of btain control the German state
of Australia's prime minister,
the United States Mission. Mr.
ticle from 1933 onwards, and learnt inw. A judge must be free from criminals." Mr. J. B. Chifley, has fruit-
Chapin was entitled under article the that warned lessly
34 of the peace treaty to receive in detail, and by admissions out all consideration of politics or per- relevant to the of their own mouths, how human sonal obligations or loyaltics, and dominion's "whole economic all information
rights
and all that civilisation in dispensing justice he must have for can
be destroyed by regard to nothing except the law and social life is approach-execution of the peace treaty, and
of course, to receive stands ing complete disruption" be particular onlculated to throw poisoning the fountain of Justice of the land, the sacred principles this background the judge should
feel able or justice can be of Justice and the dictates of information
το κίνη The fountain of of the Communist- cause
the way in which light
on
poisoned
abandoning humanity. even without
Let us now turn back to the
It must not be forgotten that organised
strike. Hungarian Government was carry- miners'
under the Hungarian law govern which he castigated asing out the human rights causes the traditional legal forms and
the normal rules of procedure in trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. and of the peace treaty.
Was the judge truly indepen- ing the setting up and proceduro courts of law. All that is neces "wholly unreasonable
sary is to abuse the forms and dent? Did he have, or did he not of the Peoples Courts the presid- an unjustified repudiation of
No Evidenco
them in вл
have, an indication before the ing judge is remotasble and has procedure, to use
trial took
what his the arbitration system."
place as to way.
no security of office, and that his four naseanors are direct др Considerable emphasis was also unfair
I want to illustrate from the verdict ought to be? is an interesting academic
To me there appears to be only pointees of the four study for the rest of us to placed in the "Yellow Book"
evidence given at the Nurnberg have (and at the trial) on the capionage trial how the Nasis set about this one possible answer. He knew that ing the Government coalition. see Socialists who
not this just how. the Nazl Poo- abuse of legal procedure, and I the Hungarian authorities had
and plea' Courts were constituted? achieved power protesting centre which, it was alleged, was
want to at the strike weapon which set up by mg that Mihalovics
to compare with that the pro-judged the whole case It was alleged the
quittal, 09 was done by the non-acquit the accused however the they have carefully cultivat loft Hungary with ed and encouraged over theor the Cardinal and the consont methods which were employed at that if he gave a vordiet of ac- Could much a court be expected to
ho the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. when
German Suprome Court trial went! reach
Austria he contacted the now quote verbatim from the N
the Reichstag fire trial, | evidence given at Nuremberg by the rogarded as a set-back ack years, but one cannot forget
Counter Intelligence German Judge: the thousands of innocent":
"Until the end of 1933 the for the regime. Let as ignore for whether are shivering Corps. From this it was boldly
the question people who
deduced at the trial, without
really verdict was the judge's and out of work because of shred of evidence, that Mihalovica Supreme Court (Reichsgericht) the moment the
It be said to over coses of right or wrong. Can this unofficial walk-out, or must have contacted the Counter Was the highest German tribuna!
transon and high
treason. For that be in conformity with the prin to skip other aspects the intelligence Corps upon the direct with jurisdiction
Reichstag fire trial eiples of justies that the trial adverse effect on the already
third came before the
reason the
Suprema
emo should have been conducted by a serious dollar deficit.
It
that
I am
ΠΟΥ
army of
the
Mihalovics.
instructions of the Cardinal,
this
The evidence on
the
д
of
on
of the
atala
chargo was merely political pre- judico; it was not capable in law Court. As is well known, it ended fudge who know what verdict he the acquittal of most of the was expected by the Government
whoen the regime had to alvo?
or in logic of proving the crime the Cardinal was which with
In Britain, another prime minister was claiming that irresponsible trade unionists were playing into the hands of the Reds, who "do not mind how the people suffer" Against Cardinal Mindszenty are this trial
charged.
The remaining four charges of the
to see convicted as members
Communist Party. After are
Let us see what indications there
of pressure having been
the Supreme Court was brought upon the judge who tried
charges relating to foreign cur- mattor of its jurisdiction in] Cardinal Mindszenty, such as the
as long as it benefits their rency.
Russia. country,
own
Messrs. Attlee, Morrison and
Bevan had a different tune protest against grievances.
of treason and high trea-Nazis brought on their judges in son. This Jurisdiction was trans the Special Courts and Peoples' ferred by the law of 1984, to the noted ples Court,
two professional
to play in pre-war days, and Such moves would be rank Primarily
of
treason. The prime minis
ན
Nazi View
Poo
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Book." It
as
Uze
WN
cn-
know,
April 28, Courte.
In the first place, we have the Hun- consisted of fact that the
judges
Government published be those of course, were ford the trial began book which
of has becausg
become known if they were honest they would blame their own for ter was right when he re- political considerations) and five "Yellow
It is published mer propaganda as well as marked that despite this, the algher party functionaries. Thus, titled "Documents on the Mind-
Red agitator in foreign coun- this court offered a guarantee that szenty case."
ex-in the present activities
the law would be applied
(and, for all in English emissaries of the Kremlin. tries vociferously claims all clusively in accordance with the in other languages as well). It contains photographs of Mind- However, Socialism is very the rights which the Krem- principles of the Nazl party,"
stenty and other persons associat much to be preferred to the lin denies-quice cold-blood-
od with him, and photographs real dictatorship of the pro-edly to disrupt the existing,
many documents which wore later letariat, although ond results regime. This is duplicity of
A captured Gorman document to be used in the trial, including may not be so very differ- the lowest order, and it is which was given in evidence at what purports to be the Cardinal's ent, and one must agree with surprising that Labourites Nuremberg and which was written written confession. Mr. Attlee that the "coun- have not long ago been on October 10, 1942, by or under
Pre-Judged try which the Communists aware of the way in which the orders of the German Minister of Justice, Dr. Thierach, described support is, from the point of they were being used. the official Naxi view of tho Nothing could take it cloarer
It seems there is a new functions of a judge.
than tho "Yellow Book" itself view of real freedom and de
The Nazis doclated that a that the Hungarian Government mocracy, and trus Sociallom, development in the cold one of the most backward war: a concerted plan to judge was a direct selatant in had pro-judged the result of the countries In the world." ruin Britain at this crucial the Administration of the state, trial and would have considered
of the Try having an unofficial time, both at home and and responsible to the leadership it a disaster if the trial had result-
(Btantsfuhr state
of in an soquittal.
The Yellow strike in Russial-There are through her empire. The The Nazis sald tr no official ones.
campaign in Malaya is under thin as
golding
made *The unmasking of Mindszenty In that paradiso of the way, now comes Austraila, i would find many a docile hol Introduction; people there aro no trade with South Africa probably sy which at first soused very and his accomplices,
therefore arrest, caused the 'greatest con- untons as the Western world next, and places such as dificult to solve. They therefore sure among those whom?
Insisted that everj knows them, only Instru- Hong Kong not forgotten in direct and close contact with servod, the Western imperialists. ments of the State, no right It fa time we really started the leadership of the state and Their Prese, their radio pro-
must be made familiar with the paganda, and, móteover, to speak one's own mind or to fight back.
hla
the Judeo
Book"
on,
AI
Political Angle
by
Was it conceivable that against
"Not
Guilty"?
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Parties
form
To Be Continued Tomorrow)
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"That's the drives and firemen
of the new diosel Royal Sco?"
PLYM
ORIGINALL
DRY
TRAD
SAMOUTHY
GIN
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says in its
AGENTS:
CALDBECK'S
and their
ha
stato.