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...wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
Ever since the war, Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary...
...Toilers Are Told. Fortnight ago, Rakosi made a major speech before his Communist Party. Hungarian peasants cocked an ear; since the war they had divided up the large farms among themselves (with the blessings of the Communists) and were well pleased. Rakosi's speech jolted them. He deplored the fact that Hungarian agriculture today is "based on the split-up little peasant holdings." He even used the dreaded word "kolkhoz" -collective farm. The peasant press gingerly expressed anxiety...
...Rakosi's speech also jolted the industrial workers. Their standard of living had been rising. Rakosi pointed out that the coming five-year plan would require capital goods. Said he: ". . . we cannot continue with such a speedy rise in the standard of living...
...Surging Pain . . ." One boulder remained in the path of Rakosi's Communist steamroller. Cardinal Mindszenty was facing trial for subversive activity, but last week the Voice of America broadcast to Hungary his latest pastoral letter, which had been banned in Hungary by the Communists. It was subversive, indeed...