To the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong one day last week came word from Shanghai that the Chinese Communists had released two more of the U.S. citizens arrested and jailed for "espionage" during the Korean war, would soon permit them to cross into the free world. The pair, both Jesuit missionary priests from California: Charles J. McCarthy, 45, of San Francisco, and John Alexander Houle, 42, of Glendale. The freeing of the priests left six Americans still confined in Communist China, two of them condemned to life terms.
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