Word: kadarism
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...moment last April, the Kadar regime let the world glimpse its version of justice. In the course of secretly trying some 5,000 "criminals" (at least 113 of whom have been sentenced to death), Kadar decided to hold an open trial of eleven young Freedom Fighters. For his winning examples he chose Medical Student Ilona Toth, Editor Gyula Obersovszky, Playwright Jozsef Gali and eight others including an army lieutenant, charged them with having murdered an AVH man who had discovered that they were putting out a mimeographed revolutionary sheet called We Live! (TIME, April...
There was no Hungarian civil administration to support the Kadar government, no public support whatever, only "a small segment of former Communist Party officials, a few senior officers of the Hungarian army," and a few members of the old AVH. But that did not bother the Russians, who sent Kadar scurrying around the country whipping up a following while his taped voice cried hysterically from every radio station. When a delegation from Kobanya asked him to intervene with the Soviet military commander to stop the deportation of workers, Kadar answered: "Don't you see there are machine guns...
...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...