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William Honneus, advertising manager of TIME'S International editions, dropped by last week with several items that he thought might make a Publisher's Letter. Here they...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
Bill of Particulars. The letter constituted a detailed bill of particulars indicting the state's campaign to "completely exterminate the church of Christ." It accused the government of all manner of persecution, of deceit, fraud, kidnapings and robbery. "All the ecclesiastical press . .. has been suppressed ... Every Catholic book which is to be published, even prayer books, is subjected to preliminary state censorship. State plenipotentiaries are planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion...
...Hang Them!" For the most part, Czech congregations listened to the pastoral letter in silence and in sorrow. But at Prague's Church of the Crusaders, Communist hecklers interrupted the reading with shouts of "Hang them and hang their chief...
...true," complained Writer-Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, "that a real-estate operator whose chief concern should be taking gum off carpets and checking adolescent love-making in the balcony-isn't it true that this man is in control [of] ... the motion-picture industry...