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...VALLEY OF THE LATIN BEAR by Alexander Lenard. 219 pages. Dufton...
...nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus. Winnie ille Pu." Hardly the sort of prose one expects to read in a bestseller. But a bestseller was exactly what Alexander Lenard's Latin translation of A. A. Milne's classic turned out to be. Winnie Ille Pu sold 100,000 copies. On every reader's parsed lips was the question: Who was Translator Alexander Lenard...
...LANE G. LENARD...
...this point, Judge Bimbo abruptly recessed the trial. He later handed down a 7½-year jail sentence for Father Lenard and terms ranging from 2½ to seven years for the other ten defendants. By Hungarian standards, that sounded moderate enough. The question was whether Lenard would ever see the end of his sentence or would, like many other zealous Hungarian Catholics before him, mysteriously die in jail...
...Father Lenard's defiant colloquy with the judge was vivid testimony to the fact that the Christian faith is a stubborn adversary, even for Communism's ruthless men. Upon news of the arrests, Budapest's Archbishop Joseph Grosz, acting head of the Hungarian clergy, fired off a letter to the government. "If the arrested priests are guilty," he said, "then I, too, must be guilty. Arrest me and put me in prison with my friends." Prudently, the government chose to ignore the dare...