HUNGARY: For Treason

Ever since the war, Hungary’s Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has pitted the Roman Catholic Church against the Communists who run his country. Communist Boss Rakosi had tried every trick in the trade—from threatening to confiscate the church’s property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press—to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal’s person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty’s private secretary into jail for “treason.” This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full “confession” from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary’s Primate for “treason, espionage and dealings in the black market.”