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...Those who did not took shelter in the U.S. and British legations, or joined a convoy of diplomats' families only to be held up near the Austrian border by surly Soviet tankmen. A Russian tank major summed up the menace to newsmen in the latest turn of the Hungarian story when he growled: "I would particularly like to shoot reporters and diplomats...
...gloomy house in the Hungarian village of Felsopeteny, 45 miles northwest of Budapest, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, free from prison these 15 months but not a free man, sat alone at dinner. People in the area knew the house as an atomic-research station of some mysterious sort: that was the explanation the Communists had given for the heavy armed guard that surrounded it. Mindszenty's guards paced about uneasily, and a Russian tank stood near by. Suddenly, out of the darkness a small band of young revolutionaries appeared, brandishing machine guns. Before their gun barrels, Mindszenty's guards...
...villages along the way, people threw flowers before his car. The new Nagy government declared that the cardinal's trial and imprisonment had been entirely illegal, that his ecclesiastical rights as Primate of Hungary were restored. Before a cheering crowd at his palace, Mindszenty appeared, a small Hungarian tricolor pinned to his cassock. His ordeal had left his face drawn, and he was more stooped and grey than Hungarians remembered him, but his eyes were bright and alert. Machine-gun-toting young soldiers moved forward and solicitous!) placed a fur-lined coat over his shoulders to guard him from...
...bless the weapons of the Hungarians," said Mindszenty. "I trust that the glory acquired by Hungarian weapons will become greater yet should the need arise.' He was bitter about the West. "A thing which no one in the world, not even the big powers, dared to do, was done by small and forlorn Hungary. Our people started the fight for their faith in their country. The Hungarian people are waiting for the world, especially the big powers, whose business it should have been tc handle this affair, to stand up in action...
Have Faith. Two nights before Mindszenty's dramatic release by the Hungarian rebels, another Iron Curtain prelate was freed: Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Prodded by fervent demands for his release from all over Poland, the Gomulka regime sent emissaries to Wyszynski's monastery exile in the Carpathian Mountains to bring him back. Last week the cardinal was driven by a government sedan through a cold rain to the grey stone archbishop's palace in Warsaw. Next day, after meeting with clergy from all over Poland, he went out before the waiting crowds. They cheered, wept...