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...Will Never Sign." "I don't know how often I will be able to speak to you in the future," Beran said. "Perhaps very soon you will hear all sorts of things about me from the radio. You may hear that I have made a confession or other things ... Whatever happens, don't believe that I have surrendered . . ." He spoke in a clear, loud voice, tense with emotion. "I come to you and swear to you that I will never sign an agreement that violates the laws of the church...
...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...Czech government says it is merely trying to stop church interference in politics. Archbishop Beran last week ordered Catholics to stay out of the new Catholic Action. Archbishop Beran said: "If some of you should be invited to join it, be aware that it is a schismatic movement...
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...
...Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds...