Religion: Rumor from Hungary

Nearly six years ago, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of treason, espionage and black-market dealings. The world has not forgotten that it took the Reds 24 days to obtain his "confession" or that his own lawyer thanked the prosecution. Last week a report carried out of Hungary by a French businessman said that Mindszenty was free.

By week's end, the report was still unconfirmed, but rumors furnished some details. The Reds were uneasy as Mind-szenty's jailers. They moved him from prison to prison, maintaining a dummy "Mindszenty cell" in each of Hungary's five principal...

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