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...Pius remembered the words that God spoke to Cain: "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth." And he added: "The blood of the Hungarian people cries vengeance to the Lord." The United Nations General Assembly, having already voted, in vain, to send a commission of inquiry into Hungary, voted overwhelmingly to promote large-scale relief for Hungary's victims, and voted decisively (48-11, with 16 abstentions, mostly all Arab-Asian) to indict Russia for its "intolerable" acts of repression...
Churches the world over reacted with shock and indignation to the Soviet Union's merciless crushing of Hungary. In a dramatic broadcast to both sides of the Iron Curtain, Pope Pius XII condemned the "illegal and brutal repression" and declared that Christians have "a moral obligation to try all permissible means in order that the dignity and freedom of the Hungarian people be restored." In one of the strongest statements of his pontificate, his voice trembling with emotion, he urged free people to "close their ranks as fast as possible and link in a solid public pact all those...
Unlike Mindszenty, Cardinal Wyszynski had not even had a mock trial. After denouncing Poland's Red regime, he was arrested in 1953, simply disappeared from view. He, too, was moved constantly, was guarded at one time by 60 security police. The cardinals' steadfastness under persecution, Pope Pius XII had said, was "a spectacle of spectacles to the world, to angels...
Said Pope Pius XII: "It is necessary to pray now more than ever...
...This Is Madness!" Adlai Stevenson was not impressed. In his speech in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he called again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...