Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well aware of what had happened to Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran nevertheless decided to talk back. In a circular letter made public last week, Josef Beran, veteran of Dachau, charged that the government was silencing the Catholic press, that church collections had been prohibited in many places, and that church schools were being "liquidated step by step." Said the archbishop: "The Catholic Church should enjoy the absolute freedom to which it has a right, both God-given and guaranteed by the existing Constitution...
...descendant of a four-legged animal, man is constructed on the horizontal principle," Antipin had told a group of workers. "By becoming vertical, he is [like] a steam engine rolling along on its back wheels ... By using artificial meat grinders instead of his own teeth, he has weakened his chewing equipment and acquired the toothache . . . Man's internal organs pile up one on top of the other like the floors of a building. This causes heart ailments...
...Front" government. They concentrated their biggest efforts in staunchly Catholic Transdanubia where prayers are still openly said for the health of jailed Cardinal Mindszenty. Paunchy (280 Ibs.) Father Istvan Balogh, suspended by his church and long in favor of collaboration with the government (TIME, Feb. 14), raced over back-country roads in his light blue Studebaker, campaigning among the peasants, who dread the Communists' plans for collectivization...
Father Benitez was not taking back a word. "Can you imagine in these days such fanatical, Torquemada-like intolerance?" he asked. Last week he announced that he would open forums at which university students would be free to debate philosophy and politics. That, he said, would represent one step farther away from the hidebound teaching methods of the universities of Mother Spain...
...eighth-floor U.S. embassy office in Buenos Aires' Boston Bank building, the telephone jangled. "Never mind the protocol," boomed the voice of Juan Perón, "come on over." After three months in Washington, big, breezy U.S. Ambassador James Bruce was back at his post. In answer to Perón's call, he put other business aside, walked the four blocks to the Casa Rosada for a hearty abrazo and a long talk with Argentina's President. In the next two days, he saw most of the country's cabinet ministers, called twice on Foreign...