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4. 1949. LOUREIRO-On June

Marla Jose Loureiro, Funeral al the Romon Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, on Sunday 5th June, at 6. P.M.

RUSSIA AND THE

CHINESE REDS

The

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1949.

PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE

THE MINDSZENTY STORY

Was

Abolition

Of

Press Freedom

BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER

of ап

The

Good Morning

"Sunday is a wonderful and miraculous day, the jewel of the week. The easy chair spreads wide and welcome arins, Tirno to read, time to stroke the cat and walk in the garden. Laten, did you hear the grass roots first stir- ring?"

You mean that low, whining noise?

պ

"HMS Chrysanthemum Leaves.”

No relation to Popocatepeti.

Landlord to prospective tenant;

"I always ask $750 for this rooni.'

of

was deeply

have to

ness took place during these writer who was not a Marxist or the Good Europeans of Hungary include in all rebuilding the horole elroctor friend. "What happened

formalistic

"Today1" Bald his managing enthusiasm of prayer, the reform to the car you bought last week?" Ing. refreshing power it brings." "Oh, that," Tepiled the hurt

The ash trays gentleman.

arc all fall.

Urged Ponitonce

way

Hun Butanici" was also con-announced by the Cardinal Pri-gained a king seems to have the eltira of Sodom and Gomor-

wan

The

of

of even

nationalisation of

Press

the

cry

σ

the

A

Today,

Greatest Teachers

myrtle

"Chinese Communists Pro- Soviet,"

Incredible!

*

•

•

•

•

Straight from the horse's mouth Swab.

of a

and people jump at it."

Prospect: "I'm not surprised. It gave me a bit of a stort.", all demanding the exemption of nations, An individuality which Its foundations have nino

been One of our local bastiona the Stephanoum from nationallen-justifies its existence. Under these shaken; that is why there is so society, who has been enjoying a tion; in vain the Bench of Bishops considerations It seems that the much talk about fundamental good round average of $30,000 a sent a representatives to tako nation is a living organism, con- human righta. Many things month from his interests In part in confidential negotiations sisting of a body and a soul. The have been smashed to pieces in the various companies. about the exemptioh. The Stephan- noul the spiritual principle, the recent past, but the Two Stone perturbed when informed at the

historical Tables have remain undamaged; week-end that he would passed into the hands of the consciousness CHT

written in accept $100 less in store-house of the St. State. This was a mortal blow for mission, the national traditions. their contents are

hls annual Publishing Catholic theological literaturo, Happy is the nation which can human nature, they represent our dividends from a certain firm. Stephen Catholic

Ton create a harmony of the two, a humanity. almost entirely the publication of text-books and

Command-Thin," he said, "is terrible. Society

Sometimes

By almost fiction.

nationalising the balanced service of both aims, Wements are the corner-stones and What about the new car I bought destroyed,

firms, almost ovory comic incidents of mental blind- pablishing

can freely maintain that among basic elements of the work of today?"

reconstruction. We would like to Government) and

and they are perhaps more numar- "library revisions." One would supporter of the have laughed if one had not felt was exiled from literary life. The ous than we sometimes think our

Stephaneum printing works came solves there la a deep admiration the tragle situation.

under the chairmanship of a Com- for Britaire because they found The Soviet colonel who boasted munist worker; the last possibility that it was the British who suc-

with that he had weeded out a million of bringing out books a creded in combining harmoniously books, sent the volumes of Bae- Catholic ideology was cut away. the idea of social progress and the In his Lent pastoral letter of deker to the pulping mills because The National St. Mary Congress, service of the social prosperity of 1946 he called upon his Hungarian An interesting statement their titles read: Fuchrer dich died early in October 1947, which the broadest social classes, with flock to do penitence because only

Schweiz, etc. Guide to Switzer- brought together hundreds of the simultaneous, unbroken main- in this

ainful could our has been made in Rome by

Innd." the German "Fuehrer"

Bloke thousands from every district of tenance of national traditions. In people and mercy in the eyes of

who recently went to Chinese Tsien Tsin-sui, a

meaning both "guide" and the country, considered the fight

ht recent Umes Hungary acems to God, cleo God would not bless our Sydney says, perhaps cynically. Communist delegate to the

"leader”). According to him, this for Catholic Press freedom one of have gone from one extreme to the efforts to rebuild and maintain our that Calwell could get a job with recent Czechoslovakian Com-book could be only devoted toils main tasks. After several days" other." In the years before the

police the North-West mounted Me country. world war mass meetings, second munist Party Congress held Hitler, Germany's Fuchrer. An discussions and

"When the sin of blood arose in any time. other weighty tome entitled Inger two motions were accepted and historica), in Prague. Mr. Tsien, in a

ascendancy over

"Mrs.still manages to write rah, the Lord was ready to spare statement to Italian Com-

demned the Soviet colonel decid

three mate at the final meeting meeting the privileged

with her ruling classes of

them if u Bufficient number of popular music munists in Rome, said that

ing that it must be about Horthy of October 7, 1947.

the nation; the social and material righteous men could bo found little boys on her hands." the Hungarian "Fascist" Regent announce herewith the follow-progress of the broad masses was therein. But as He did not And Like to see her doing it. the Communist victory in

A French edition of Boccaccio ing resolution

of the

Catholic neglected. The land reform wan them, destruction came. China would have been ab

the index put

bearishes of Hungary. Hungarian repeatedly postponed and folled by

Executive ability: The art of once again, our fale depends on a solutely impossible without cause it was published in Paris Catholles demand and approve of the Conservative forces. Since the large extent on whether we have convincing your wife that you Russia. There is no means In 1942 when Petain's collaborat the reco

the recognition

of the Hungarian second war, perhapa as a strong a sufficient number who by peni- engaged your beautiful wife in Univeralty ionist Government was in power. Catholic the whether

everything second reaction, knowing

has been tence and expiation will contribute account of her experience. of

Every be regarded since 1933--sometimen

German book published moti

motion, duly passed, refers to the centred

in the "people": the to the ending of troubles and the statement can

light of the Hungarian Bench of "Peoples" Democracy" is being bettering of our country's let. If "A former Yorkshire miner, as an official Chinese Com- earlier

date had to be pulpedale daily. This fight has", realisation of the social iden, of be responsible for

for permission to start built up, the emphasis is on the we

remain indifferent we shall Mr. Henry Akers, who left Brad- down.

London 14 years ago, the further ford for munist Party

On one occasion I was pronounce-

Socialism; but at the same time, destruction of our ment; probably not, but it delegated by the Ministry of Edu- been carried on now for two years, and the slogan of this Idea, the After the great defeat of Sedan,

people. arrived in Singapore recently." cailon to take part in the "purg- The Catholle communities demand under

Slow boat to China? is interesting nonetheless. con

inf

Budapest University in the name of the whole of Hun- whole, thousand-year-old Hun-

Penitent Franco raised a great Also of interest is Mr. Tsien's Library. I tried to save the trea-garian Catholicism that the sugarian history is being re-valued, church in Faris, upon the Hill of A senator from Indiana con- aures of Hungarian culture--but thorities shoutd facilitate the the holiest traditions of Hungarian Martyre, in honour of the Sacred tends that Europe has recovered statement that Chinese Com-

the best one could do was

Ruch daily in the to publication of Ru

history

and are denied

every Heart of Jesus. We poor munists and workers have

Han-so nicely that the US should cut "ical"

the books put on the name and interests of serious de attempt is made to make the Hungarians cannet afford to raise a US$3,000,000,000 from ECA funds. their eyes open against what index. I tried to persuade the mocracy. We have other premises garlans forget the consciousness glittering cathedral as an set of Europe looks pretty rosy from he termed "revolutionary Russian colonel that ho WDB

of the Wabash, far for our demand, apart from the of their mission, losely linked expiation; we can,

at most, re-the banks wrong but I falled even in the fact that we, Hungarian Catholics, with Christianity. The suggestive build with the greatest efforts our away. bourgeois traitors" such as

churches, represent

cent. soventy por

of strength of the two expansive, innumerable ravaged Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia. instances mentioned above.

Complete Abolition Hungarian Democrney."

imperialistic and

In polite society they say atom totalitarian destroyed in the war, to serve also As Marshal Tito has quarrel-

Then

the Cardinal

powers and put

their geographical as sanctuaries of atonement. But bonib, not blast you! led with the Cominform ou

Stephanoum,, the great Catholic motion: "Do you accept these nearness have sharpened the ex- even until this is achieved, we can

"Reservations for the concert the issue of nationalism, the printing works, meant the commotions proposed by the Catholic tremes of thought. Dven strong turn every plous noui, every family

be made by calling Bad hint

to be that appears

plete abolition Hungarian parishes in our open meeting?" and big nations have not remained and existing church and chapel may

of

by them. And this into homes of expiation where, Nauheim 2556, and all reserva- freedom.

crowd-about a hundred and untouched This China's Communists are loyal Catholle

The

has had to instead of the thorn shall come tions will be cancelled at noon on cight thousand people replied nation of extremes was nationalised printing office satellites of the Kremlin.

with under the low antionallsing

unanimoua, enthusiastic solve, both before and after the up the fir tree, and instead of the the day of the performance."

That's why it's called Bad Nau- Russia's approach to na-

enterprises cm

employing more then yes. But Cardinal Mindszenty's second world war, an almost im- brier shall come up the

helm. intentionally a hundred people. tionalism is

The official fight for a free Catholic Press was possible dilemma. Before the war free. (Isalah, 66, 13.)

this dilemma was simplified in statement,

in which tife Catholle, just as unsuccessful as his strug- vague and ambiguous. The

liberties. The these terma: the friends of the News Service commented on the gle for the other rulers of the Soviet Union

expropriation of the Stephaneum, voice of the Church remained a Allies in fungary were the Con-

the and servatives, the Philo-Semites, the

mission The Ideals and are not likely to make the expressed faithfully the illegality totalitarian Communist rogime:

me bellovers in national sovereignty nation are voiced by its past, its mistake of under-rating its of the proceedings and the

maintenance of historical history, its cemeteries and the speeches. We must bo content to power. Men who made Rus- nation

Tv. traditions

who wore conservative

graves of its great men. Cardinal evoke through the Cardinal's sian nationalism the basis of injury to Catholle Pover this new continued the development of com- and

According to the Government oblivious of the nation's desire for in social questions as well; the Mindszenty said more than once: words the meaning of Hungarian

were bellovers in

graveyards of the centurica history, the Hungarian mission their defence of the Soviet decree, the Stephaneum printing independence and freedom, ignor-pro-Germans

the greatest manifest in history, which linked Union against Germany and works, owned by the St. Stephen ing the moral principles repre- social progress, prepared even to

surrender national sovereignty to speak to you as who today are ready to ex- Society, has been nationalised.sented by the Church.

somo extent in this cause. After cachors; their guidance is never our people to the service and de- wrong. And we know what our fence of Catholic Christianity. ploit nationalism in Asia Hungarian Catholics were inform-

Free From Foor the war almost the same dilemma cemeteries teach us in their sim- Perhaps it may sound strange and was posed with regard to Russia plicity; what the voices of the anusual to a non-Hungarian and when it suits their purpose

in the centenary year of the St. Among the horrors of the cocond This nation is ill; it has suffered beloved dead are saying. We do non-Catholic, but we must aware are sharply

that in Stephen Society. Among the world war we had believed and ather hands nationalism may Hungarian Catholics, who repre-word that onely-tried mankind great harm in the storms of the not want, we cannot live, without here, as we feel and know it, that mankind recent apocalyptic years. That is the teaching of our graveyards. the life and date of the Hungaria, Bent Seventy per become the greatest threat to

cent of the would truly attain to a

this

that why, between the years 1944 and The living may lie to us, but not nation is Catholic Christianity their plans. From the point caused a considerable shock

country's

step was free from fear and want a population,

nt 1049, it ought to have listened to the dead; their warnings lead us Thus perhaps we can explain what De-

especially because the high the voice of its

Ita conscience-the of view of the men in the cause the St. Stephen Society and principles which guided the Alles, voice of Cardinal Mindszenty. This unerringly." And if I may sound this nation lives and dies for, why 318n subjective note I must confessit sacrifices RATTA the altar of Kremlin, nationalism is

true leader, its from the time of their foundation among them especially the Anglo-book also desires to be a cry,

self-control not to follow the Hun- eloquent conscience. The Catholic been either a business or profit-Saxon powers. In those territories plea to the conscience of the world: that I am in need of the greatest martyrdom ta tural rallying point of all op-secking enterprise, but the im. where "beration" was brought to save this European, Christian garian Cardinal on his journeys faith is different from all other

im-about by Russian

was rapid and com- from being buffeted between

in the true The Stephancum

plete, Conquest is perhaps the two extremes. It cannot recover as of the land, into all the Hungarian the Holy Eucharist, serves aerved and

of millions

clinging to transubstantiated bread and wine Europe which still retain a Hungarian Catholics in theology, greatest human art, for in the long as it is being infected by the tits, where he always invoked the presence of Christ within the

true senso of the word it means

her plague on liberal way of life. Nothing religious life and culture. It seems the conquest of souls: creating in it feels the truth of the voice of garlan past, so rich in changes of Virgin as God's Mother.

own soll. Even if allowed memories

each district, plumbed the Hun- and the worship of the Holy has done the Communist probable that when nationalisation the human spirit the willingness is conscience, it cannot act; it

fortune, stretching far back BCTOSA parties in France and Italy the St. Stephen Society and the to accept and assimilate the will, cannot turn it into reality a thousand years! Only a poet's

neodod to more harm than the repeat- Stephaneum printing works are mental make-up, intentions and achieve the balanco

words could do justice to thosel (To Be Continued Tomorrow) of the conqueror, Thero- ed evidence that they put only institutions in Hungary deals

austain the nation. the privileges possessing

of fore conquest Ja impossiblo by It is in the nature of a con- the interests of the Soviet publishers to the Apostolle Holy force, by tanks and submachine-selenco to speak, to raiso its Union before the interests of Sea were taken into consideration. guns unless physical superiority dice, to sound the toesin even if The consequent indignation has abetted and inspired by a historical cataclysm and mental other hand, as Marshal Tito telegrams addressed to the Presi

wako, has proved, it is equally a dent of the Republie by

suggestive strength. In the danger in those countries member of the Hungarian Beach of their excellent strategy and his nation; in brave, inspiring arms, the Russian words, ho invoked, the lessons of of Bishops, the National Presi- victorious

Hungary the the Hungarian past, pointing out ruled by Communists. The dency of the Aclio Catholles, the troops brought to

of fear and want; an that national life and reconstruc Cominform regards the supreme lay organisation of Hun-spirit heresy of "bourgeois" na-garian Catholicism and, as we oquality based on cultural back-lon was also a task of the spirit

kill a nation's history to

the national entelechy. tionalism as being far more have been informed today (Aprli wardness in misory and terror, and the soul. He proclaimed that menacing than that of Com-2, 1948), by Catholle communities The ethos of

In these remains unchanged: like the pillar expressed in shape by the his- all over the country.

the munist nationalism. In Bul-telegrams the President of the of fire and emeke above the Jews torical past, was to destroy

wandering in the dosert, it hovers nation itself. Cardinal Mindszenty to weigh the

MUCCENA over ita history whatever changes did not

and deny the garla, Communists have been Republic is naked warned to beware of "every detailed reasons and the facts in there may be in government and heroism of Hungarian reconstrue the form of constitution. Soviet Rulon, the houses, fields; but Ho the light of Justico and the

rebirth of factories, manifestation of anti-Soviet-

guarantee of freedom given to tho la is the spiritual heir to the briges,

of the nation ism, the most heinous form Church, and to take the necessary despotic Tears, to earlier Tartar felt that the soul of nationalist deviation." steps to exempt the Stephaneum and other oriental empires; it had also needed healing. In the vas- Hostility to the Soviet Union printing works from nationalisa-developed fear and misery with toral letter he issued at Christmas In any case, this decree has the modern technique_of tion: is regarded as the mark of not yet been approved by the Hun-

the 1940 he wrote: "The whole Hun- totalitarian system and the nationalist. -What the garian Parliament. Hungarian practical methodN

economic arian soil must be cleansed by Kremlin wants from its Catholiclam belleves and hopes collectivity. I feel that the fore the flamos of prayer, faith and satellites is fulsome praise of that these fust and lawful demands going pages prové suficiently that he said in the Church of Eternal

will be granted."

The Hungarian Communist regime, Worship: the Soviet Union, in which

Fruitless Appeal established by the victorious Rus *We need reconstruction. Only every success of the local

the appeal made by the slan arms, has indood introduced it is to be feared that essential Communist movement is at- Cardinal Primato and Archbishop the reign of fear into the land. elements are omitted from our re- tributed to the example and Czapk to the President of the Historical Mission building. To build we need bricks help of the Soviet Union. Republic and the Minlater of A community is turned into a and tiles, morise and conerate, fron What the Kremlin fears is Education was fruitless. In vain nation by the spiritual ideal which and wood; we need working hands thousands of telegrams poured in it is willing consciously to serve and zoal of labour; besides muscle the apostasy of Yugoslavia, from every part of the country, as an historical mission, A nation and bone, we need the engineer's a country which, now more than ever, is the target of unbridled abuse by the Cominform.

double danger. It is the na-

od of this by newspaper reports

fr

Its printing works have never

munism in those countries of Catholicism.

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But

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or inspiration from Russla,

of

muzzle

سال

Yes, Cardinal

sacrifice." On February 10, 1040.

The statement of Mr. Tan the road its history has shaped, and energy there works]

survives as long as its social, plan and the technician's direetton physical and histerial exisionco is a spiritual elements; but we also mured; sa long as it keeps to need prayer to gain the Supreme

Divine. Graco....

..Behind The responsible, conscientious is the first doparture from adery of nation have therefore in every human being a still ho Boul, the this studied silence on a w douple task: to ensure nosial mightier-factors point which is bound to have prosperity and social equality, and spirit. Only prayerful bumanity to cherish in its consciousness the can build a better world. We have increasing importance in the Pactions which give it a special to reconstruct not only the outer next few months.

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