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...Roman Catholics had regained some small but significant freedoms. Then Communist Boss János Kádár ordered his security police to get on with enforcing his regime's real policy toward religion: implacable enmity. If proof of that policy were needed, the Budapest Municipal Court has just supplied it with the trial and conviction of 13 priests on transparently flimsy charges of conspiring against the Communist system...
Chief defendant was Father László Emödi, 45, former rector of Budapest's Regnum Marianum Church, which was razed by the Reds in 1950 to make room for a huge statue of Stalin. Emödi was first imprisoned in 1961 for organizing religious instruction among children, but was later amnestied. Now he must serve out the four remaining years of his earlier jail sentence as well as five more years for his latest "relapse." Also convicted: Father Alajos Werner, Hungary's leading composer of religious music, who several years ago attended a congress...
...banned from their dioceses. Hungary's most famous symbol of opposition to Communism, Jósef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is now the only Catholic leader of his rank in Communist Europe still barred from the duties of his office, remains in secluded asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest. He will not leave, he has always insisted, until freedom for his church becomes a reality...
...second violin might rub elbows with Eugene Ormandy over a dish of veal and boiled potatoes, and everybody takes a turn at doing the waiting chores; last weekend two of the men on duty were Max Rabinovitsj, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony, and Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet...
...Middle East this summer under State Department sponsorship gives Marlboro the privilege of being the first complete festival exported from the U.S. It is an orchestra no commercial organization could afford to keep together for long, in which the first violins, for instance, include Alexander Schneider of the Budapest Quartet, and one of four violists is Soloist Jorge Mester. They are all playing for no wages at all. "They are ready," said Casals proudly. "It is time that America brought culture to the Europeans...