Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confession experts" are back at work preparing new witnesses for the trials which will be held to prove the correctness of the Kadar regime. Honeymooning with Florence in Italy last week, Paul commented wryly: "Chiefly for the files. That is how Communists make history...
...years before last fall's uprising. After his release from imprisonment, Cardinal Mindszenty threatened all "peace priests" with excommunication unless they submitted to church discipline. Most of them submitted. Notable exception: Father Richard Horvath, the National Committee's ambitious chief. Horvath went on riding high after the Kadar regime was installed by Red tanks. In January the Vatican excommunicated Horvath (for "plotting against the legitimate authorities of the church"), decreed automatic excommunication to all other priests who followed him. The Kadar regime fumed, imprisoned two bishops in reprisal. But last week the Vatican announced that Horvath has since...
...same time the Kadar government promised its "benevolence" toward the church, particularly concerning the right to teach. The church, for its part, pledged support of a new organization called Labor for Peace to replace Horvath's old National Committee. The new organization will include the peace priests, but also Hungary's bishops and other clergy untainted by past collaboration. The two bishops imprisoned in retaliation against the excommunication decree will be released...
Kadarj also offered Mindszenty safe-conduct to the frontier from his hideout in the American embassy, but the cardinal refused, not trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly...
...file of Hungarian soldiers came out of the woods. The lead man carried a mine detector. The soldiers fired a few shots to scare away the Austrians. Then, applying a tourniquet to the girl's leg, they put her on a stretcher and carried her back into Kadar's Hungary...