Word: esztergom
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...hills west and northwest of the city the Germans hurled tanks and planes into a drive to reach their trapped garrison. They slashed more than halfway through the 30-mile-wide ring the Russians had thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary...
Host to the Congress was Justinian Cardinal Seredi, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. His opening speech to pilgrims, in Budapest's spacious Heroes Square, where a 150-foot altar had been erected, contained no hint of the fact that he is firmly anti-Nazi. Said Cardinal Seredi: "How different would be the fate of humanity, created for happiness, wherefore it is ever seeking happiness, if the solidarity of all Catholics of the world could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism...
...mossy, domed Cathedral at Esztergom-on-Danube wound a solemn, resplendent procession of robed prelates and civil functionaries heavy with chains of office...