CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Spy Wednesday

For more than a year the Communist government has been hacking away at the Roman Catholic Church in predominantly (75%) Catholic Czechoslovakia. Last week ten members of the Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan and other orders were sentenced—on Spy Wednesday*— on the usual Red charges of espionage and conspiracy. Their sentences ranged from two years to life in prison.

* So named for Judas' betrayal.

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