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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1949.

PART I: "THE PRIMATE OF HUNGARY".

THE

MINDSZENTY STORY

the

"elder" or

senior

great excitement

cometimes

WIR

Christian People's Party, evan

an

10

did

Conquest Of Vanity After Meteoric Start

BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER

a man

With

0.

A

It

The

Good Mor

"Dear Member,

Just a reminder that the third 'Friday noon of May is Monday,

May 23."

That's ono

of the things I'd prefer to forget.

No, Myrtle, Britain's Foot Guards are not 12 inches high, und the Household Cavalry is not employed to take the palace inalds for drives round the park.

"Britain oaks more assistance for children of Asia."

More cumshaw, more whisky, more soda...?

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"Escaping retribution, he takes Joan refuse with clinic worker Fontaine, who saves him."

Rubbish!

Regularly como

the

old

than

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"The first of a series of 'after-

Dash it! Same old bag of

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Some there are stubborn

to fulfilment? seven were finished. The ninety-

and so set

Only death can clear their eyes, And the wild atomic anger Of a world at war made wise...

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Former goolbird poses as judge

number of

D

BEN-

the tentative suggestions for he became Barized it when hope, faith, Joy of living, a new tory is an enigma just because the enjoy the opportunities of peace tencés. He had the courage of

view to

A True Magyar

the

When

the

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soles of his days after the end of the tragic was born on March 29, 1602, in through the broken Cschi-Mindszent. He attended the one and only pair of boots. In torror of the German occupation

sinister stories From Alaska 1944 his and the formation of Dome Szto- in his native the torrible winter of elementary school village and received his secondary prison was a schoolroom in which Jay'e quisling government.

seep through of Eskimos sub- schooling at nearby Szombathely, he slept on the bare boards. And ancient diocese founded by St. versively spraying their ice igloos in the famous pld wist which the cat ha kent to n atlet Hung table Stephon, the Imp. King of Hun- with scarlet Ink. Tho Synator tamans

Sabaria. In the every day. He ordained pricala gary, comprises tits enree large do and sureying-thememesan na na na Szombathely seminary of

choir and kept countles ha and organised a

ancient of most

and situation with suspicion. History knows perhaps less antebed his theological studies. His every liturgical rule with

noti-hallowed Hungarian diatricis, It

"I don't understand why a about the fathers of great men Count John Mikes, wished culous exactitude, and made others is surrounded by the thick forent who have risen from the ob- bishop, Chang food boy to Vienna do the same. Itelensed from his of Bakony: acroen it march the handsome boy like Joh yours scurity of humble origins. The to completo his higher education, prison, he returned to Veszprem rolling Transdanubian hilla. In marry an ugly woman 20 years Primate's father (who died but the future Cardinal, eager to by goods train, by peasant wagon the contre lles the beautiful Lake his senior."

"When you want banknotes, only recently) was for many begin the practice of the priest and on foot. His episcopal palaer Balaton, "a tear-drop of God" sa

hood, preferred to stay in Szom- having been roquinttined, he one of our poets has called it. Ita you don't look at their dates!" years

the village of bathely. When he had finished his moved into 4 single room in a cat is the City of Hungary's magistrate of

storics from one horas Queons; his professors again at-canon's home. Mindszent.

studies,

Veszprem, a city built on

about shooting affrays It is a curious fact that the tempted have the bishop nend cart he visited his whole dioccac rock. All that St. Stephen created America

tender years.

more villagers talk for

about him abroad, but Count Mikes, re- the horse being driven by his impresses one as timeless, stornal among boys of than

travelling along about membering the first refusal, re their late "eldor"

the even today, amid the historical Some people are said to feel the hop time is ripe to call the small fry with burnt-out landslides and hurricanes. Bishop together and adopt a programme lined son, for until plled: 'If I have once his world-famous

his death of D

he amount and he dismounted from tanks, and through the

the ninety-first villager Mindszenty was the day

of gradual disarmament. He of parcel part and

him with shell-wrecked churches. their lives; his horse shall not offer

occupant of the ancient sce. was while on this tour

that he

of his historical his original and

was conscious stubbornly up- another." And 60 Mindszenty

Circus clowns are accused by a of still being There was, following the right

character had

came a teacher of religion. After he appointed Primate! The secret mission; the old Castle of Vosz- Soviet committee made its

was that he of his greatnes Yangtse incidents, the stories impress upon the village. If neces- a very short tenure of a cligions always sacrified himmelf, forget helped him in this consciousness. capitalistic way.

prom, the tradition of St. Stephen, funny in

bourgcols, disseminated by interested sary, he defled the angry temper curacy he became religious

It is pointed out to them that parties that Britain had no of the whole village in Hungary Instructor in Zalaegerszeg. This ting his own needs in order to be More than ten years earlier, while

soften stirred by remote Transdanubian

to be town be everything to everybody: he took in Zainegerszeg, he had written it is better

ideologically intention of being caught xrent ex

omk hie shoulders, mes termed "pro-

ideologically came, between 1917 and 1944, the the burden

Biro Padanyi: liquiescent. Infact, abandon Hong Kong ancients of the village still talk of extraordinary personality, a pre- the care of every

apping twice: she would, ours,

paganda in other countries. The scene of the development of an making it his own: the sollicitudo the blography of his great pre-acquiescent

omnium erclealarum ef St. Paul, decesor, Mar

This blography one of the most this time after a token resist- the hard-fought election campaign paratory workshup for the man

church and thorough and original works writ- ance. As "proof" of this in which their old justice of the who was to govern many souls and every soul. The process of gerten in recent decades. He presented noon relaxers will be held on

ROOS mination

eternally in on the guide the whole of Hungary. our non-intervention policy peace clung stubbornly in the civil war was pointed when the rest had donerted the as teacher of the faith.

Two events illuminate his record silent darkness, in the roots be the life of the famous baroque Friday, the subject being 'Corn- He was neath the soll. Under the radiant Prolate with much careful detail munism."

in an excellent, vivid stylo He Relax, everybody... to, and our abstention from party's candidate. Ignoring the imprisoned

warmth of the sun, in the rich first Communist blessing of the spring rain, by the

considered him his model because the warnings of Revolution because of his militant denly mats forth blusson, flower

eul of his

tireless creative work. "Partly cloudy and mild today, taking stringent netion when persuasion and our warships were shelled. the district magistrate, he drove opposition. After the fall of thet and

its bishop,

Martin Biro, a typically night." Local Communists and op-to the nearost village and polling Communist regime and his release and fruit. The mysteries of nature During his seventeen years as a with later showers, followed by

strutting, station alone to register his vote, from prison the people asked there still a riddle; even biologiets Hu portunists were

go, Hungarian character of iron will- have merely touched the fringe, although not yet in public,viction, for the candidate of the

bidden by his unshakable con- bishop to appoint the young priest) History is the spirit's supreme power, founded eighty-seven new tricks.

What

and twenty-seven Who knows what parsonages and even children were being Christian People's Party. The to be their spiritual guide.

he accomplish in these quit my perhaps the stoutness

ess of schools, built ninoty-five spirit and told: "It won't be long be- inflexible

tenacious

Hun unobtrusive years in Zalaegerszeg his Hungarian stock, perhaps the and twelve. Io bore the costs of the churches and restored one hundred lore the foreigners are driven faith of this hard-headed

the carlan would seem to have been Almost in secret, the seeds-Were Hungarkan mission, patorical 60 many new churches that in a

Bown of A Hungarian miracle providential, out."

fateful The sending of 8,000 rein-Cardinal Mindszenty

inherited by his grent son Joseph, which, three years ago, fired even} situation-brought this great Hum- ningło year (1738) no fewer than?

His name ***** forcements, with

planes, was not Mindszenty, but Pehm. the lazy and indifferent, and gave garlan character

and passed the sons of the doomed country The supreme irrationality of his first Bishop of Veszprem did not armaments and ships, plus The Primato

of Veszprem. the From it his opponents have tried spirit and a belief in the eternal, psychologist, the historical philo- ful times and financial means; he his convictions to go that far.

Innermost regional defence and uncompromising statements to prove his German origin and the whole town of Zalaegerszeg, sopher and the theologian, walking could not follow the

with a the whole Southern part of County in the light of pro-German sympathies.

Revelation, are inspirations of his soul and satisfy of sifting the file creative desire and urge, of Western politicians, have view to discrediting him in the Zala is packed with the monuments alike incapable somewhat deflated the birds eyes of foreign nations and un-of Mindszenty's creative work, secret into lucid formulace or of he came to Veszprem the signs of of prey, but they still hope arians permissible only to the and parsonage; the College of

military collapse, of final dissolu- The Francisena Church, monastery reaching logical conclusions, attacks were,

multiplied. tion, were already for their chance.

however, totalitarian party Press; and Notre Dame; the St. Joseph Hume;

When the rising tide bursts the dam, Imen It is known that the most under the existing suppression of the Zrinyi Printing Works, book-

are needed to stop the gaps, to stem the flood, to fre potent weapon the Commun-the freedom of the Press no one shop and the county nowspaper

the ists expect to wield with a could counter them in an indo- were at the work of his initiative It is certain howover that no men's spirits. He hurried to

Southern Zala power of blood, soil, history or border, to the villages of Southern the absorption of Loendent Catholle newspaper by and purpose. Ia

parishes, new

nine tradition

full Zala situated along the frontier, can evolve Hong Kong without invasion asking the original unmagyarized eighteen is the creation of chaos bylher Ministers and high officials six new Catholic schools were all whose teleology is not

names of the Vice-Premier or of churches, thirteen parsonages and strength and beauty of a character in order to continue what he had already already begun as a parish priest;

strengthening rioting, strikes, intimidation, disruption of communications in key positions, all playing in-catablished by him. In the begin- Intent in its roots, waiting to be spiritually

portant

ning people were staggered by made ripe.Cardinal Mindszenty in Denva line. A single trip led to and food supplies. In this ant parts in this new Peoples

could his plans, which semed impossible Democracy of Hungary. It

ible a true Magyar, albeit ho originally the foundation of five parsonages and some schools, The homes of plan they would be greatly not be asked if those who were no

Inter they accepted bore the Getman name of Pehm; i aided if hundreds of thou-concerned about the Primate's oven his greater schemes without was his lagyar blood that made three-first foundations were barne,

the challenge when

hen silos, empty baillif cottages. Thus, sands of refugees fled from family name adhered to the. Nazi surprise, for everything he set his him accept

moment came. racial theory which they had so hand to he carried through suc- the decisive

Hein the period when the fierce and the Southern provinces into frequently condemned; whether cessfully. He lived no if he were was imbued with historical sense, destructive war between the Ger the Colony, which would they judged a man's national ach- ilving in

the hin church; he oven with

consciousness

of the mans and Russians was already eventually be unable to pro- timents by the name that ho was controlled the order of seating. He humanitarian

est, raging on Hungarian soil, he suc of ceeded in less than eighteen vide accommodation, food or born with.

lived in the county and the town ofisiant it is sure that his months in creating difteen parishes sanitation for--the

great Hungarians | hall

hall as if the county and the Certain observers believed bearing foreign-sounding names, had been the focus of his activity. nation's European mission, to be and eighteen new schools and in with foreign blood, He lived as if the care and visiting a bulwark between East and West, laying the foundations of nineteen this would happen when have become the foremost re of the sick were his chief concern was a

inspiration. It more ADUTCO of

parsonages.

eighteen Shanghai was in extremis:

historical of the presentatives

but ore his centuries of that city is likely to fall at traditions and the national spirit as if he had no other work at all. had been perhaps forgotten in the months-four out of which he had

charity were his as

apont in the prisons of the Hun- equilibrium, now shines again with a clear garlan Nazlal than those of

fire evacuees has been negligible, surname, Cardinal Mindszenty was no other demands Now it is being suggested of good Magyar stock. A remote the elementary school-children, the in this age which has divided the

Into two uncester fell in the siege of Kisko- college students, the aged and the world

cam However, it that the Canton garrison marom, in the war against the commander's advice that an Turks, and for this sacrifice the poor. He organised the Barefent mackstrom of history,

citizens possible family was raised to the path Charity of the infant scholars is this mission which Justifies the many

Peasant through which the children of

ren of existence of Hungary. Yet had not should leave the city means nobility. Among his paternal and Zala received a thousand pairs of the sun of Divins Grace and sta that vast numbers will flock maternal forbears are found only boots, Among the secondary school fertilising rain touched the secret Hungarian names. or his four students he assured the studies of roofs, the hidden character, the to Hong Kong.

grandparents three had Hungarian sixty or seventy by

ht

Hunkyar obtaining for

compulsion Should they do so, the names;

the only foreign one, them free meals in strict rotation blood, the mission of the situation could well

like

with different families. Forty old people, the historial crisis could sinageable, but there is bucket. The soil, his fortfathers people were maintained in the not have made him hero, con- as yet no indication of any the people spoke where St. Joseph Home. Mindszenty was fessor, prophet, church father and

only Magyar no self-accker. dock. It thing was a mass migration. Canton 15, and 1vod according to the tradi- Church, Christ and his

the martyr; the man in whom every- preparation for his like Shanghai, grossly over- tional Magyar cuatome. A man is the eternal mimèle of the spirit destiny, for self-immolation on โช populated at the moment, is what he is by the spirit which that whoever stifles in himself the the altar of his sacred duty, and whether the city is to inspires him; a Hungarian is a narrowness of

of living and beliefs, In devotion to-street fighting or not, the convictions, by his ideals and by for his fellows; that whoover Church and to his nation.

the service of his people. The coasen

to live unto himself and

No wonder that, he's an! most obvious thing for any list word is always spoken by casts away self-interest

grows to the heights of a commander to do is to get history. History will decide which in a richly versatile Bion of the archbishop's and finally a pri rid of the non-essentials. was the true Hungarian; Cardinal Community: ho becomes complete, guardian of his principles,

mato's office, as tho unshakable') w Reports reaching here in the Mindszenty or his enemies,

Christian paradox, the

whole past two days indicate that

he magnetle, radiant, inspiring per- followers and a

nation, Indeed are large numbers

Alled a part in public life of great Bonality.

historical significance. This man of steel who, with wonderful gifts going back to their villages,

deep

the feelings combined the where they are assured of has been truly mateoric. Hla be-

heart and resolute energy, was discovered by Mgr. Angelo Ratta, Only one who has completely then Papal Nancio, quietly pro

himself in his hermit-like Only three or four thou-written, and it is true that seeking can be absorbed utterly in sand people have come to some unforeseen trend of the disinterested service of prin- his Zninegerszeg vicarage. The Hong Kong in the past 48 events could swell the influx ciples, And Cardinal Kinderenly occasion was a tour of Poll forts fugee camps which Mgr. Hotta hour-a. negligible number. to a suffocating extent. At was such a man. In the

Inst afternoon had taken under his care. Hu sald

to Further there has been no 'such a disturbed time it is, 20 vicarage, the

before he

the of Joseph Mindezenty: succeeded sign of vast numbers of eva- however, essential to keep placopal ses of Veszprem, it was soldier of iron purposo cuces pouring from 'Hankow ovents in perspective and his sole preoccupation to see to suring the public wesl; since its abandonment. Most take things as they come, the packing of his shrunken car companion with the sufferings of of cheap wartime others he is a gentle servant of of those fleeing have been while preparing as far as yock, mado

erzaiz-material: for ho locki Jesus. wives and families, or pro possible against likely con-nothing with him to his

aus It was a testimonial to ordination character matured in manhood, a diocese and fiteers afraid to remain intingencies. And as there is case of confiscation and per- no intention to keep out except his breviary and a change worthy to govorn

clothing. In the Hungarian also the Church of a whole country His norial danger.

Chinese, no matter how many Naxt gaal of Bopron the Blahop in the snost dmcult times. It goes without saying that may care to come to worry of Veszprem was forced to shoral onlination as Bishop of Veszprem many more people will flee about it seems like worrying snow, Ho fall seriously ill and ran took place in the Basilica of to the Colony before the last about the next typhoon."" high fever, for the wet-comed Eastergom on March 20, 1944, ten

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