Word: wyszynski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Departure & Arrival. The hour of Wyszynski's departure for Rome had not been announced, but word spread quickly through the city, and by the time he arrived at the railroad station a large crowd packed the platform, weeping and cheering. Women brought flowers, jars of soup and freshly baked cakes for the journey. "May you live 100 years," they chanted, and when the train finally pulled out people still strained to kiss the cardinal's ring as he leaned from the window...
Historic Vistas. The Vatican has a long memory. It remembers coexistence and martyrdom, and the infinite shadings between, in times, of Moslem invaders, stiff-necked emperors. Reformation heretics. Enlightenment atheists and revolutionaries without end. So long is the Vatican's memory that an insider can say casually of Wyszynski: "This man is the only free, active, dynamic cardinal in Russian-held territory since the Czars in 1430 ousted Cardinal Isidor, whom Pope Aurelius IV had sent to Moscow...
Accustomed to such historic vistas, many Vaticaners set about putting Cardinal Wyszynski in perspective. There are those who feel strongly that he has gone too far in coming to terms with the Reds. Wyszynski's cool reception was deliberately planned for two reasons: 1) to show that agreements with Communist governments, even when favorable to the church, are nothing to be endorsed eagerly, or for any reason but strict necessity; 2) to protect Wyszynski himself against the propaganda charge that he is a favored tool of the Vatican. Reported one Vatican correspondent: "If the Polish Communists or the Russians...
...direct analogy unfair, but the crack spotlights the contrast between the two cardinals: Hungary's hothearted, unbending Mindszenty, who fought a brave but disastrous battle with the Communists and wound up with the propaganda blunder of taking refuge in the American embassy; and Poland's coolheaded, intellectual Wyszynski, who emerged from three years' imprisonment with the will and the words to calm a people that was spoiling for the barricades...
Interrex. When Wyszynski talked, Poland listened-for reasons that are historical, political and personal...