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Sunday, the 17th of August, 1946, tricolored Congressus flags were flying over the Kolej. Prime Minister Gottwald and top cabinet officials turned out to pay tribute to the occasion. After a colorful opening ceremony in the ornate House of Arts and Music, the Congress moved to the more businesslike conference rooms of the Kolej. Within its confines, we were to work and eat, and occasionally sleep for the next two weeks...
...Irish Free State has issued a special Congress stamp, with a cross, "Inter-nationalis Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles...
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