International: He Is My Priest

In Budapest's state penitentiary last week, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty waited for action on his appeal against the court's sentence of life imprisonment. The ruling would be made by the National Council of People's Courts, Hungary's highest tribunal. Hungarian officials said that, whatever Mindszenty's final sentence, he would serve it in one of the country's "foremost penal institutions."

Meanwhile the Hungarian Communists continued what they called their "educational enlightenment" of the public, which tried to hammer home the point that Mindszenty was not only a traitor but a coward. There were some Hungarians who...

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