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UN THE CHINA'MAIL," SATURDAY, MAY ZB) (1049...

PART I: “THE PRIMATE OF HUNGARY”.

THE MINDSZENTY STORY

reserves.

DURING the long war on Hun- garian soll and the protracted siege of Budapest, people had exhausted all their During the post-war inflation be the greatest in said to world history-which ended on August 1, 1916, and the sube sequent deflation and shortage of money, they had to sell what little they had left.

stricken, beggared. This overly

on I

do

heavier pressed middle einsa, and think I in saying that It dollberato intention of the new system to ruin, by the artificially prolonged inflation: the class which Cherished thas Ideals of liberal

Economic ruin, democracy. course, would also mean political ruin.

Years Of Misery

of

The Years Of Misery,

Hungering And Suffering

BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER

the

Noble Prido

Church stood alone--with

we helped them all. As if this people had and French prisenested the Polish most humane and kindly fashion in deflance of the rare of the German soldiery; as if for several years, the only secondary school of thirty million Foles had not found a home at Balatonbolgar, on Hungarian folk. The record the prepared in Hungary for foreign countries about the long list of our sina has been exag- gerated. It was, in any case, a distorted record and has become a useful weapon in the hands of bur enemies. I cannot accept this record with devout and patriotic conscience. I only call the in- lividual members of the nation to examine their consciences as to their dotions in this single year 1916."

Lunacy

Dr. Luna, Filipino, opposes, the expected withdrawal of American troups from South Korea. Ta him it sounds a crazy proposition..

When con a' Communist called a good Communist? Why, when he's a customer, of course,

› Taiwan, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Szechuan are all now to be togarded as "bastionn":t

It has a bit of a bombastiónle ring, somehow.

Bloke up for being drunk and Incapable told the magistrate he had nine children.

One over the eight.

Terribly, Terribly British.

We are the just-become-British, Though the tongue: be still

strange to my throat Irisa and I röyally, thunderi

To

non-British think that should vote!

Shall these then appoint

Inwgivera

OUT

Here in this England more, far? (I hope that the talpans all

listen. To how patriotic wo are.)

We, for these not-born-here

millions

کره

the hardest winter of a thousand | Transdanubian counties of Bar-point to examine our conscience.

Hungarian years of

history, anya and Somogy. Through the In this year there has been, con- Wot no motha? syyk hovers above us like a hidrous car- } Catholic Students". Action, Bud-

udiant talk about the crimes of the 1. "Lloyd's of London have in rion-wulture.

restauranta apost

generously post. Certainly there has been gured. Monty, Woolley aboard a mid-day "look ahead to this winter, and undertook to provide my human, Christian and Hun-meal for provincial students living more mention of them here than against "Are, theft, Hail or tör- Karian being trembles. According in the capital The Cat in any other country of Europe, ado

As if we were the villains not only to the official statement of the ganised soup kitchens, day rest authorities, fifty por cent. of those rentres, with the aid of Hungarian a single nation, uus also of

Europe and the whole world. suffering from dysentery died this Catholics, the authorities and, first if among a world or degols this summer because of undernourish and foremost, of foreign Catholics. nation were the guiltlest aggreator ment; deaths from tuberculosis and infantile mortality have been In truth, Catholle charity whis and world lostroyer as if this

had hot made doubled. Now in October the nawa-a well-organised, excellently fune Contribution only the urgent papera publish reports of deaths tioning institution of Catholta in helping the European countries by starvation. Political strife has polidarity and social aid. Almast nalavad by the Nals. Belgien,

consed in almost

general every parish had its charity office, France, Denmark, Holland, Greece bowalling of the lack of supplies, which provided for the poor, w the deficiencies of public services opened creches for the children of

their expected fantastic mutated breakdown, the working-class families, organised the forespo a future auch an not even founded to university students, soup kitchens and homes and the other for old people unable to work. Its not Josephus Flavius am wide of the mark great depicters of misery could significance increased in Budapest, unheated especially during the siege of the the describe: windowless, ጌዲ በ19

homes in the key frost, innocent capital, and even more after the bablos withering at the empty, niege. During the siege all the

breasts of that lay authorities had fled;

the emaciated mothers....

the great help of the Papal Nuncio in serving the poor and the families who had lost the broad winners. After the siege the Com- munists-who have now nono polized the organisations of public welfare welcomed the work of the Church because in the difficult and critical times the Church was alone able to obtain foreign help It Cardinal Mindszenty's moving plea that brought this "In the winter of 194h the Hun-world, the civilised-peoples-and help these were unforgettably gerian urban population and, first countries, holding out the empty momorable and moving rattably

beggar's bowl

of his nation; send- international Catholic solidarity, Budapest Ing out to all, the people of

all faced poverty, cold and hunger. the

points of the

compass The British, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, But the Primate hud said: “The 3.0.9.: signal

the In the capital there was no house

Irish, Swedish, Danish Catholten, Hungarian lives. You the Vatican and the great and through it and lis

year 1840, because men ved course was undamaged, no dows intact. During this winter after the war. Your hearts mat

erformed by men, cannot be called a the N.C.W.C.-W.RS. year without crimes against the charitablo and social halp was the first task of the Church and hear us; you have already begun

Cathalle Welfare Con- nation. The idean of the human of her prleats. After his Esztergons

The Hungarian Caritas But what about freedom from helped "We did not want War; we were enthronisation, szenty hurried to Budapest and overwhelmed. By our geographical kitchens, in which 115,000 people done to decrease the fears, and

with their

aid: 120 soup want and fear? What have we

They gained miseries of the nation, to increase the appreciation not starving population but of the What have we dono to

remove of CWC, was represented in Hunts freedom of the Press, freedom authorities as well. The restrictions on freedom, to inercase

A top secret army staff confer- gary by some excellent men. They of speech or Individual berty? tnce has just been held in Eng-

land "for generals (only." spont a considerable lime in

Hun

What have Wo done to enhance our

Not the "sounding bross," cyl- learned to know the sense of duty How far have the dently. gary and special circumstances of the coun Ten Commandments been observed try. The used all their influence towards God, our fellow-creatures to obtain the largest possible or their physical and spiritual amount of help for the suffering possessions? What efforts have wa The Tortures Of The Condemned Hungarian people.

put forth to instic? How far Brixton, prison from, loud speaker

make thin s-country

This, blaring of propaganda into and

In the years of misery, hunger and suffering Cardinal Mindszenty devoted all his energies to the aid of the impoverished Hungarian people and especially the urban papulation.

of

"I know the Hungarian people's self-reliance and noble pride; how difficult it is for us to beg to show our wounda! In its stead, on Its behalf, here below the rubble of ancient Buda,

this Grat meet

at

ing with the capital, the Primate of the country faces the great

Bave

was

"Human Rights”

room with win- poris humanity and help excellent American Catholic

to help ather conquered peoples wer Roller Serviced) all rights came to us in a new glory.

Cardinal Mind-

A report printed yesterday described how the Press de legation from the Colony visited the Treasury in Lon- don to hear an account of the British economic position and policy. They were told how measures to strengthen sterling were vitally impor- tant to nearly half of the earth's population. It was mon in the St. Stephen Basilica | the logic of the war. explained that although the It was a mighty and moving ap-

"For a thousand years our blood United Kingdom is export-peat to the peoples of the world:

Pave the Imperiled Hungarian and soll defended the peace, cul- ing considerably more than livest

tars and prosperity of the West, before the war, and import-

delivered on thus ermbling you to remain with In the gate of life. ing less, there is still a gap of U.S.$1,200,000,000 yearly, now being met by Marshall aid.

Can say all that needs to be.

Why want representation Really does make me see Red, Red for the tumbrils and

tumbling

Of all that is vested and

prized

Shall this great heritage, crum

bling

Be lost to us naturalised?

Why did we put penito: paper Learn write good Engilsh at

school,

Maklingus very: outstanding Over such fellows to rulo? .... We do not few-and we're

vocal

(Fitted non-British to tax).......... Hearing Reformers talk fair.

ness

Preached his first Badapott car-position, our Historical misfortune, i received warm food. of the the help given to our peoplet Really, Slr; gets up our backsl

"A hundred years ago first the Danube and then the Tisza rose, in flood and Budapest and Staged were destroyed. Men defied the flped to save the dying Hungarian Ilves. Then our own heroes were suficient. Wo need outside help in 1945.

The tides of misery are rising

A

New Year's Message

of ponca

have we conquered ofiraqlyes, how

·

con-

The Mormon was October 14, 1946.

"My dear brethren.

As your new Primate, appoint- ed by the Grace of the Holy See to the Sea of Esztergorn, 1 have hastened to you, to the Hungarian This aid is due to end in

capital. 750,000 members of my 1952, and Sir Stafford Cripps main diocese liya hero; but an

other, far more urgent reason is making every conceivable

brought me to Budapest. It is

far have we realised the public Vás seem to be or violation of After all there effort to ensure that Britain

1046 and the three-quarter million

still permitted the Primate to send damming the fory lava of vindicave

In 1945 Hungarian democracy weal? Have e, succeeded in human rights.

'may be a few Conserva- can stand on its own feet by Cathoilen, together with the rest.

the on Hungarian soll.. Wo await the the of the population, carry that time. The realist, how-

the message to humane, warm-hearted life-savers

Hungarlah tiveness and hatred, in feeding Amongst

vida-confidence. man and capital- On the tiny ebbing streams of love

overdone things a ever, without wanting to be heaviest crosses. Here are the most

numerous wounds in the hearts of the great and small nations. people on New Year's Eve.

this occasion ho took stock of the and humanity? Have we not been, who have, past and examined the consciente according to St. Paul (Titus, the silence of their peaceful cells defeatist, can see no posstand on the walls. The people af Bring us the gifts of happy family

lite--and why should they have bility of this happening.

the capital struggle, suffer and homes, social classes and com-

its.munities; bring for babies, of all an

to the future. In this 9), “living in malice- and envy endure heroically, resist heroically, the hours and months of tempta children, Invalids, broken-hearted he defended his nation against the Have we not tried to build with with loud speakerst

speech, later violently denounced, hateful; and hating om another chattered by rowdy Red rullions tion. I havo

that the sufferers the lovellest fruit the

exaggerated charges of past clenched fists, and to heal with shepherd and his flock may look human heart; charitable help. E crimes. This defence could only by hearts aflame with hate? Have wo

not ourselves wallowed undertaken by the Primate of into each other's eyes, read each perience the joy of giving food do

find strength the starving, clothing the naked Hungary, the head of the Hun-

which we have clamorously in God,

consoling the sorrowful. Yours garian Catholic Church, which was denuuticed in others! Have we Bergman, makes her a living. The stormy clouds of war will be the grateful tears of the the least to blame for the sing of hoard the sighs growing.. passed more than six months ago,nation and the promise: Blessed

int they are the merciful, for they shall the past regime. For the Catholle louder round about us, being from whom you'll rejoice, sütter and, Perhaps we are grind have passed, but the basin of the obtain mercy! Danube, even if it is no longer a

It is true that by then long term projects devoted to im- proving capacity will start paying dividends in the way of increased output and (pos- sibly) lower costs. But the modernisation scheme covers only a small part of the nation's industrial plan, bad- ly affected by years of non- replacement. Meanwhile the gigantic capacity of Ameri- can mass-production is gain-

come 60

other's hearts and

of

Ita

al their post. As the

(To Be Continued)

ever

"The frogie tale of Joan of Arc in,known to averyone, but Ingrid

breathing, vital woman with

yes, die at the stake."

Sorry, we're in bed with a treat

What the Chinese citizens tav-

For our local

4.

Millions, bilións, trillions, Forth from the press they flow A3/new bills gåtjetill bigger, Where do the old ones go?

It is prudent to insure rather than to take

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rising Church, Cardinal Seredi at all the four points of the,

had laken a clear stand How, fat

have

we mourned or its head,

the schema

mad

pro- been mindful of the wasting of valley of blood, remains a vale of "Till we meet again in the mis- against muffering, tears and misery. Thesion of Christ upon the field of pagated by the Hungarian Nazi Hungarian bables, the wilting of regime (and even altempled in Hungarian virging, the absarice, of approuching winter, perhaps, mercy!”·

part by force) to evacuate the Hungarian men, the terrible tor But Cardinal Mindszenty was whole population of the country ment of Hungarian mothers, the not content to await, plead for and to Germany when the fussian splitting up or familles of the our most for one ing momentum, and now-people which is doing so accept the help of forelim charity. troops entered. In opposition knowledge that the father was "politicians" is chloReform.

He used the occasion of the Feast to his plan, according to the in the East or in the West, the adays there is nothing in the much to help itself,

of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the residential law of the Council of mother in prison, their children world to compare with it. However, at the end of the grant Hungarian-born saint of Trent, the bishops and clergy re driven from door to door?"

It is already competing war. there might have been Christian lovo and charity, on mained strongly in markets Britain another way out, although it November 19, to appeal to the people followed their bishops and used to dominate, and if it would have been a long-term impoverished Hungarian society. pricats, the idea that five million He asked them to share," their Hungarians from Budapest and were not. for the general project.. If the Socialists had small resources with those who Transdanubia should enigrate Woa frustrated. scarcity of gold dollars, the put aside their reluctance at were even poorers in the great collapsed and demand for US goods would heading an empire, and had meeting of brotherly solidarity let According to authentic data, this

Hungarian help Hungarian, After voluntary sacrifice, tho

herolo be even greater. The hope with bold energy embarked all we cannot count on outside clinging to their posts, cast the that more and more manus on a scheme to develop trade help alone, However much we lives of Cardinal Seredi, one factured goods can be sold within its boundaries, Britain have lost, even if the home of blahop and forty-nino priests. A1- to America If only they were and the Commonwealth every family is the dark scene of though civil authorities of whole anxiety, let us open our hearts districts fod, the Catholic clergy, available is already being might now be beginning to and homes to one another In this strongly mensced by anti-religiou

unfounded." proved

That reap the benefits. Instead of area great community of labor propagande, remained with their country makes almost every the futile groundnuts plan in The source of charity is never the flocks. And Ir. not one but six bucke the drawer, the basket; the million Hungarians had fed to kind of article, the public Africa, and a few small loans wardrobe, but the sensitive human the Wast, the mall Hungarian wants, mostly protected by to colonies, the great un-heart. It is the heart that moves nation would suffered such a loa

material from Ita of

blood that it might have lost tariffs, and kept cheap by the developed sources of raw money and vast quantities in which they materials should have been been lost, in Hungary, but there stato separate mation. This place: to que 'neighbour, Much has its right to remain an independent are produced. British goods. -exploited on the widest basis. still exist thank God; Hungarian Hungarian Catholic Church, by sell from 10 to 150 per cont This would not only have hearts that would part even with keeping the Hungarian people on higher, and while in many provided fodder for our fac- theke last-shirt it the right pide its ancient soll in the face of the cases they may be af better tories, but would have tre this grim winter must we do in order of Genghis Khan: ap

proaching it from the East, quality, public demand over mendously increased the

the nation Auch service that if there is mainly conditioned buying power of: Indigenous Realistic Answer has every....right to defend the crimes committed in the former by price considerations, and populations, and made them

Hagave.comerate), reallitie, bra, which! hád:béen oxaggerated when it has a wide choice, purchasers of our manufde-nawer this question: lohh bond all reason in this perioa generally buys the cheapest,tured, goods.

bara latter Lansing on, Föbrusty

following the country's "ta- These facts must be per- But the Socialist planners], 1946. The Castellon of the prostion. That is why Cardinal Mind fectly well known to Crippe shrank from any such at vi sont engrost many-giftraty said on December 31, and his experts. One can tempt, preferring to retain parcala for the brathive in the 1948, in hit New Yeabroad-

capital

“At Senat. anospardel for cants #14 the strength of religion only suppose that the prey their positions by depending bur starving Budaperfiftelliset had dean lacking in the soul of our sent austerity measures, the on the dole from capitalist was the motto of his herping or nation, our holy Hungarian soil crushing taxation and the America, while going bad fanation. The parcels were sent would have become a place of mad- to the Central Ouritas Office of men, and suicides. On the eve of starving of the home market with ruinous, nationalisation Budapest This Toffee organised this old gear he continued in his must render are gallant attempts to da, wchames at home; The crash, the winter evacuation of boys and notable spach, all that is possible, and to. If it comessavill not be yet, girls between four and fourteen, seconds from: Toni to gout Yor youre of age from Budapest to crimes committed,good deets prove to Washington that put the year 1952 looms with the richer, amis least, ravaged omitted. I. would like to gather, our further aid is justifled to a menace,

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