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...Catholics, and non-Catholics as well, but many Vatican insiders are currently critical of him. Their complaint: his "very definite lack of prudence." First count against him: allowing himself to be photographed saying Mass in the U.S. legation close to an American flag. Second: assigning his aide, Msgr. Egon Turchanyi, to smuggle out of Hungary a message for U.S. Cardinal Spellman. Father Turchanyi-who was also in the legation photograph and clearly identifiable-was caught at the Austrian border and imprisoned by the Reds. Both the flag episode and the message, the Vatican fears, may strengthen the familiar Communist propaganda...
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