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Perth, Thursday, April 4, 1963.
NO AMASTY SO FM FOR LIFE PRISONER V IENNA: The amnesty declared for political prisoners decreed by Hungary's communist g o v ernment apparently does not apply to Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, according to reports reaching here.
BUT THE EXCLUSION OF THE HUNGARIAN PRIMATE FROM THE AMNESTY IS NOT CERTAIN. The decree was announced on March 21 by Premier Janos Kadar and unanimously approved by the Hungarian Parliament. reports said. The amnesty releases from prison for a three-year properiod persons bationary convicted of war crimes, Counter - revolutionary activities, leaving the country illegally, acting illegally during the Stalinist period, and engaging in anti-State aCtivities within the past six years. Excluded from the amnesty are those convicted of treason, espionage, murder and arson as well as habitual criminals. Cardinal Mindszenty, whose 71st birthday was on March 29, was sentenced by a Red court to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of espionage and treason in 1949. He was freed from gaol in October, 1956, during the anti - communist uprising. But he was forced to seek asylum in the United States Legation in Budapest when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian freedom fighters. He has remained at the Lagation ever since. NOT INCLUDED Because of the "crimes" of wrlich he was "convicted," the Cardinal apparently does not benefit from the amnesty. But Premier Kadar also announced that those not covered in the general decree may be given freedom if they ask for it individually. A report from Budapest quoted a spokesman for the Hungarian Foreign Ministry as stating that the amnesty "naturally does not include the Cardinal's ease." The spokesman noted that Cardinal Mindszenty "was sentenced to life imprisonment as a traitor in 1949." But, he added, "there is always the opportunity for arty prisoner to ask for individual mercy. Whether the Cardinal will make this move is strictly up to him." °13servers here think it in!likely that Cardinal "all make anthe appeal for 'mercy." NORMAL! P:emier Kadar said in his address announcing the amnesty t.hat his Red regime's r elations towards the Catholic Church have been normalised. There is no need to
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pursue a political struggle against the Church any more." The amnesty was decreed less than two weeks after Franziskus Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, announced plans to visit Cardinal Mindszenty in Budapest and make the personal suggestion that he end his six-year asylum at the U.S. Legation by going to Rome. At that time there had been reports that the Holy See was trying to get a safe
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conduct pass out of Hungary Cardinal Mindszenty. for Vatican authorities, however, declined - to comment on the reports or on Cardinal Koenig's proposed visit to Budapest. For more than a year Hungary's communist government has been indicating a willingness to discuss the Cardinal's case with the United States as part of negotiatins with general America over an improvement in relations.
School Question Back To States CANBERRA: The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, has rejected Catholic representations for a full-scale enquiry into primary and secondaryeducation in State and non-State schools. The request was embodied in a letter sent to Sir Robert by the Federation of Parents and Friends of Catholic Schools in Tasmania. A similar letter was sent by the comparable Queensland body. Replying to Mr. D. A. Kearney, who signed the letter on behalf of the Tasmanian federation, an official of the Prime Minister's Department wrote:
"Your proposal for a national enquiry into the needs of primary and secondary education was one of those considered by the Commonwealth at the (recent) Premiels' Conference, as indeed it has been at two earlier conferences. "The Prime Minister confirms his previous decision on this matter: 'In all these circumstances the Government is not prepared to set up another committee which will open up another field of financial responsibility. But it will continue what it regards as its liberal treatment of the States on both revenue and capital side“. In the meantime, we will seek to bring to completion the tremendously important job we have undertaken in the tertiary field in the last few years.' "Assistance to private schools is, of course, a matter within the purview of the States as the authority administering education."
PRELATE WHO WARNED OF RED TAINT IN CUBA DIES: NO FUNERAL PROCESSION
A Cuban cardinal who gave the first public warning from the Church that the regime of Fidel Castro was turning towards communism died in Cuba on March 20.
He was Manuel Cardinal Arteago y Bentecourt, who is the third member of the Sacred College to die in 1963, and whose death reduces its numbers t o 82 members. It was only 19 months after Castro came to power in Cuba that the late Cardinal signed a joint pastoral f rom the Cuban Bishops denouncing communism. In December, 1960, he signed an open letter to Premier Castro protesting against Marxist attacks on the Church. At the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in
1961 the Cardinal took refuge in the Argentine Embassy in Havana. He remainArgentina till there ed severed diplomatic relations with Cuba early in 1962. He was the tansferred to the San Rafael Hospital in Havana. In con',inuing failing health, the 83 - year - old Archbishop of Havana, suffering from arteriolosclerosis, contracted pneumonia about two weeks before his death. The prelate's surnames bath loom large in Cuban history and in the nation's struggle for independence. His Commander father, Rosen+) Arteaga y Montejo, took part in the revolutionary struggle of 1868, which won a measure of autonomy for Cuba. His mother was
the sister of Major -General Miguel Betancourt of the Army of Cuban Liberation.
Exiled Manuel Arteaga was born in Camaguey on December 28, 1879. He began his elementafy education in Camaguey and continued it in Caracas, Venezuela, when his family was exiled there. He was ordained in Caracas in April 1904, and served there until 1911, when he returned to Cuba and became a parish priest in Camagu(y. He also se:ved the community as a municipal official and won recognition for his skilled handling of public affairs. He was named VicarGeneral of the Havana diocese, and in 1913 he founded a magazine called "Religion
and Country." He contributed numerous articles to Cuban periodicals and also earned distinction as a lecturer, particularly for his defence of freedom of education. Father Arteaga was named . a. monsignor in 1925. With the death of Archbishop Jose Ruiz y Rodriguez of Havana in 1940, he was named Vicar Capitular of the archdiocese. On December 26, 1941, he was appointed Archbishop of Havana by Pope Pius XII. He was created a cardinal at the consistory of February 18, 1946. There was no funeral procession. The Cardinal's bo, was transferred privately from the cathedral to the cemetery, where he was buried in the family mausoleum. Four of Cuba's seven members of the hierarchy were at the Mass. Cardinal Arteaga is :urvived by a sister, Mrs. Rosendina Arteaga de Fr i. of Havana; two nep., s.:. Rosendo and Franklin Espi, also of Havana; and a niece, Mrs. Felicia Espi de Alvarez, of Miami.
GRAND CHARITY PREMIERE ' SOUND
MUSIC,"
OF
which has received excellent notices in other States, will be starting in Perth on April 24. The management
of
the
Capitol Theatre has offered the first night as a Charity Premiere and the Franciscan Missionaries
Mary will
of
benefit from all tickets sold at Pellegrini's, Walsh's, Dcogues, from outside promoters or from
the
Sisters
themselves at 16 Hamptonrd., Victoria Park. Pictured
above
6-3459. is
the
Mother Abbess (Rosina Raisbeck ) with
the
postulant
Maria (Renee Guerin) whom she sends to be geverness to the Baron Von Trapp's Later she advises
children.
Maria to marry the Baron and we have the wolcierful story of The Trapp Family S ingers.