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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 29, 1971
THE BATTAUOl
Cardinal Mindszenty is released, leaves Hungary
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) _ Joseph
Cardinal Mindszenty became a
free man Tuesday. During the
last 23 years he was free for
only four days, in October 1956,
when Hungarians revolted against
Communist rule.
Release of the cardinal may
represent the final dramatic mile
stone in Mindszenty’s life. What
ever the Vatican’s plans might
be, it is unlikely that the 79-year-
old man ever will play a major
role again, either in his country or
elsewhere.
This reporter was perhaps the
only Western newsman who cov
ered the four major postwar
phases of Mindszenty’s life: he
interviewed him while he was
still residing in his magnificent
palace in Eszterhgom, then re
ported his sensational trial, saw
him again when a platoon of
soldiers who joined the revolution
freed and brought him back to
Budapest, and finally talked to
him in the shelter ef the U.S.
legation where Mindszenty sought
and found refuge when the So
viets besieged the city to crush
the revolt.
He always was the same man,
the proud, rigid, almost stubborn
prince of the Roman Catholic
Church.
Hungarians, Catholics and oth
ers, more or less agreed right
from the beginning that Mind
szenty, spiritual leader of about
seven million Hungarian Catho
lics, was not up to his task dur
ing the dangei-ous period of the
late 1940’s when the Communists
applied crude terror to take over
their country. The man, elevated
by the Holy See to his high post
during the chaotic period of the
war, remained a parochial priest
in the Esztergom palace, where
Hungary’s primates had resided
for centuries.
Hungary’s religious leaders,
first of all the Catholics, tradi-
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in the country’s political life. In
this climatic period, when the non-
Communists were on the defensive
against the ruthless tactics of the
Red army-supported Communists,
what Hungary needed was a skill
ed political priest in the primate’s
palace. Mindszenty was not this
kind of a man.
Then Gabor Peter, dreaded head
of the Hungarian secret police,
personally arrested him the day
after Christmas and an indictment
accused him of high treason.
The cardinal was convicted and
sentenced to life in prison.
“I was tortured in body and
soul,” Mindszenty said on the
afternoon of Oct. 30, 1956, when
a jubilant crowd escorted him
back to the small medieval pal
ace of primates in Budapest.
The eight years in prison did
not show on the cardinal. His
piercing eyes, slightly stooped
posture were the same—but there
was a trace of greater under
standing, almost mellowness in
the man, standing in the small
study of his Budapest residence.
Three days later, on Nov. 3,
he addressed his countrymen in
a radio message. His speech, con
trary to Communist accusations,
was modest, almost humble.
A few hours later, at dawn
Nov. 4, he found asylum in the
U.S. legation: the air then was
ringing with the fire of Russian
tanks.
At mid-morning the same day
rumor reached the legation that
the Soviets had threatened to
bomb the city from the air if
the revolutionaries did not capit
ulate. The legation ordered every
one to the cellar. This reporter sat
alone with Mindszenty in a cor
ner.
sad. He talked in low tones, re
called his earlier meetings with
this writer. The atmosphere en
couraged the latter to ask the
indiscreet question: ‘‘Why are
you here?”
Now, at long last, the cardini
is a free man again.
He was calm, quiet, and very
Cardinal Mindszenty pondered
and sighed: “Somebody must re
main alive and free to tell the
world what has happened, to
shake up the conscience of the
peoples.”
What induced him to do ^
one can only guess. Probably lij,
age, his health—despite the tt
port from Rome that he loold
healthy on arrival, it is knownh
has tuberculosis—and the reco;
nition that as long as he remaii.
ed in the embassy, the Vatiti;
could not appoint another hei
of Hungary’s Catholic Church.
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