Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Rosenow set up his barren shop (his office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps...
Summoned to Szombathely Communist headquarters, he was told of Mindszenty's arrest. Now, all priests would have to declare themselves for "democracy," i.e., Communism. Was he prepared to cooperate? "That's a pretty big order," Koczan replied. "I'll have to think it over...
...Buried Box. In Budapest, the cardinal soon learned of what had been decided during the Cominform's busy day. He began to prepare for his arrest. In a stern farewell message to the clergy, he recalled that he had been lenient with the Catholic laity in giving absolution in cases where wrongdoing had resulted from Communist pressure; he warned that there must be no backsliding on the part of the clergy: "I have eased the conscience of the faithful; naturally this does not apply to a single priest, monk...
...Righteousness Sake." The reason for Mindszenty's arrest was plain. The Communists wanted to demonstrate that no power remained in Hungary that could stand against them. The demonstration might not prove entirely successful. Two days after Mindszenty's arrest was made public, the Minister of the Interior summoned four of Hungary's Roman Catholic bishops who, jointly with their Primate, had staunchly held out against a government plan designed to make the Catholic clergy virtually employees of the state. The minister told the four holdouts, on pain of imprisonment, to resign. They flatly refused. Nevertheless, the Communist...
...Mindszenty, the Hungarian government formally announced that "under the weight of evidence against him [he] made a confession." But, so far, the Communists have not published any confession, with or without his signature. Cardinal Mindszenty, despite the human frailty he knew, was a strong man. Just before his arrest, he had written: "This is now the word of the Sermon on the Mount: 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...