Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comparisons with Cardinal Mindszenty are inevitable. "The Poles are behaving like Hungarians and the Hungarians like Poles," is a saying that went the rounds last fall. Vast differences in the two nations' situations make direct analogy unfair, but the crack spotlights the contrast between the two cardinals: Hungary'...
Ever since his short-lived freedom from Communist jailers during last autumn's Hungarian revolution, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works...
* U.S. Foreign Service Regulations state: "As a rule, a diplomatic representative or consular officer shall not extend asylum to persons out side of his official or personal household. Refuge may be afforded to uninvited fugitives whose lives are in imminent danger from mob violence but only for the period during...
"Refuge must be refused to persons fleeing from the pursuit of the legitimate agents of the local government. In case such persons have been admitted to the diplomatic or consular premises, they must be either surrendered or dismissed from the mission or consular office."
The Moroccans also needed other kinds of help. "They asked us constantly for books, instruction and conferences," said Dom Denis Martin, 49, who has directed the priory since its beginning. In 1954 the monastery began to serve as a meeting place for Moslem and Christian students, for French colons and...