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Road to Dictatorship. Church to supplant a Church, a "The people of Europe," he faith to fight the Faith; the incontinued, "wanted someting they spired gospel of Marx for the had lost in giving up the Church. abandoned Gospel of Mark; a god Without ever knowing it, they of earth for a God of Heaven, a wanted a faith, a religion, a be- new mystical body with its visible lief in an absolute; they wanted head not in Rome, but in Mosdogma, infallibility, discipline, cow." authority, obedience and sacrifice, Disillusioned Youth. they wanted to relieve the boredom of freedom or licence, so Youth feels so restless and is they flocked to a dictator. inclined to be revolutionary, " Eact to His Evil. onsignor Sheen said, because "They wanted a compulsory "it wants an absolute to take the Few have ever heard of Bela The decisions at conferences, ber, a Hungarian renegade, who organisation for the chaos result- place of the relative. It sees Kovacs; nevertheless he is cer- varied hourly on Monday. Fin- left Budapest for Moscow after ing from a liberalism which the inconsistency between sitting tainly one of Europe's men of ally the Smallholders instructed a scandal which occurred when judged progress by the height of in a classroom and hearing a prothe moment. Kovacs to appear voluntarily at he was in a band in Budapest. the pile of discarded moral inhibi- fessor say there is no distincHis name may never become Political Poice Headquarters. He Gruber, now on Red General tions. They wanted pilgrimages tion between good and evil, and very famous outside his own did so on February 25. Swiridow's staff, ordered the and since they wrecked the then being inducted into the armcountry, Hungary, but in his preThird Degree. Hungarian Radio to broadcast Church of the Virgin, they would ed services to die because there sent predicament he stands as a "Eastern Europe" reports: "He the news of Kovacs' arrest. make them to tractor factories. is a distinction between good and symbol of the type of democracy left the building at lunch time, Immediately afterwards BalThey wanted to believe there evil." that Russia is quietly destroying spoke with some of his friends ogh, the Secretary General of was something world; "Our young people see the whilst her statesmen fence at whom he told that he had been the Smallholders' Party, Szabo, for some it wasevilthein the Jew, for shallowness of the emotional World Conferences. confronted with several of the the peasant leader, Pfeiffer, the others the capitalists, for others anaesthesia of the optimists that Not even the Russians can deputies accused of complicity editor of its paper, were all ex- the Christians, for others Parlia- everything will come out in the label him a Capitalist or a Fas- in the conspiracy, and he could pelled. Kotis, a leader of the ment, and for others democracy end through evolution and educist. He is an elected member not understand. why these had Smallholder Press, had a sudden -but at it made them feel cation; they see the vanity of of Hungary's Smallholder Party. said heavily compromising things "heart attack" and the Commun- that life least had a purpose. trying to maintain a respect for In Communist eyes, his crime to his face. Laszlo Gyulai beg- ists thinly disguised as "Leftists" "Totalitarianism gave the Eu- religion without ever practising is that, like so many who have ged him in a tear-choked voice, .and some job -hunters, replaced ropean man a religion; a counter - it." stood against the Stalins and "Look my dear Bela, do not them. Hitlers of this world, he refuses deny it any more; admit your A Symbol. to be browbeaten by the Krem- guilt-it will be better. Hungary's public lapsed into a lin or scared by its Secret Pol- Pal Jaczks, once upon a time ice. a tough anti -German partisan, general mood of despair and KoIn Hungary's democratic elec. and a gallant pilot, completely vacs, symbol of all democrats tion the Communists, in spite of brokeil, amidst hysterical sobs, who refuse to be terrorised, has the Red Army's presence, ob- repeated, 'Bela, it is senseless; disappeared into the Red Army tained only a small number of make a clean breast of every- prisons, where no doubt he is The Smallholders won thing.' seats. Szentivanyi, the diplo- being subjected to the usual Russia's Prison Camps Must be Opened to U.N.O. the election, but at the Krem- mat, was so aged and shattered practices which precede the polilin's request had to bring in that Kovacs hardly recognised tical demonstrations that the The figures released by Russia caught in East Prussia by the adKremlin ironically calls "trials." Communist Ministers in a coali- him." The British and U.S. have pro- at the Moscow Conference on the vancing Russians. One claims tion government. After these examples of Rusnumber of German prisoners of of Gradually the Communists dis- sian Third Degree, Bela Kovacs tested, and the Russian Army covered "reactionaries" in the was allowed out, but arrested by has told them to mind their own war she still retains serve two the town of Roessel between 14 purposes. They reveal the cruel and 60 were herded into cattle Smallholders' Parliamen tary the Russians the same after- business. with which totalitarian cars, 50 to a car and shipped to ranks and forced their resigna- noon on the orders of Marshal Meanwhile Mr. Molotov dis- cynicism regimes regard human lives and the Ural mountain district; twoIn addition they infiltrat- Koniev, Commander of the Red cusses democracy at Moscow. tion. ed into the Smallholders' ranks Army in Europe. Bela Kovacs' fate is the mea- they bring into stark relief the thirds of some 2,000 women died and caused splits to the Left. Hungary learnt of Kovacs' ar- sure by which the West should whole problem of slave labour in en route. Europe. Other countries as well, though Smallholder Nagy ruled un- rest from a certain Major Gru- judge Molotov's ideas. easily as Premier. Bela Kovacs First, the Russian figures have under far better conditions than e are forced to imagine in Rusand other genuine Democrats fooled no one. Though during hosstood firm. British and U,S. protilities, Soviet claims of the num- sia, are using slave labour, France tests to Russia did nothing to ber of German captured ran into under pressure from the United ease the pressure. astronomical figures, though ear- States to release prisoners of The Kremlin hoped Kovacs lier Soviet releases admitted the war by October 1, has agreed to would surrender in the unequal detention of huge numbers, Rus- give them three months to decide struggle. They underestimated. sia now blandly claims that she whether they will return to GerFinally, the Reds "discovered" holds only 800,000 Germans, and many or remain as free workers. a plot. Even mass arrests, a had repatriated over a million. It is estimated that 440,000 of war of nerves, and movements The most conservative Allied cal- some 650.000 will go home at of the Red Army failed to force culations put the number of Ger- the rate of 20,000 a month. Great Secularism's Spineless Indifference to Causes Kovacs to collaborate. man POW's still held in Russia at Britain hers at 15,000 monthly. Now it is a grim truth that a minimum of two million. CathoAccusations. The democracies need what the lic Church leaders in Germany, Allied national economies would Accusations against him were totalitarian regimes have capisays Religious News Service, esti- be seriously disrupted if all the broadcast, and the Reds demand- talised on-"the rebirth of pasmate that 7 million Germans are prisoners were returned to Gered his parliamentary immunity sion"-Monsignor Fulton J. detained outside of Germany, many at once. They are needed be suspended. The public and Sheen, of the Catholic UniverFrance, for "mostly in Russia." Further, as for reconstruction democratic press backed Small- sity of America. declared on the regards the numbers Russia example, employs some 250,000 holder leaders who suggested as Catholic Hour recently. in farm work and 56,000 in the claims to have a compromise a Parliamentary repatriated, the This passion does not refer to same source states that "of the mines. But it is also true that Enquiry (though no real charges what is found "in a movie a or Germany cannot get into produc1,250,000 persons repatriated to had been preferred). the Russian zone from Poland, tion again with her present man, The Party stood firm. It modern novel," but to a quality Silesia and Russia, only 32,000 power shortage. The steady reelected Pater Balogh, its Secret- born "on a hill called Calvary and turn of German workers to their were men between 16 and 30." ary General, who then stated he on a Friday called Good," Monhomeland is essential for the ecowas ready to fight the Left Bloc signor Sheen asserted. But prisoners of war, sad as nomic stabilization of Europe. at new elections if necessary. "That passion was love, fire, entheir fate is, form but a segment It is also that in law RusOn the same day as his de- thusiasm," he continued, "its ecsof a vast and tragic population sia and the true other countries may claration Russian Ambassador tatic peak appearing seven weeks in Europe today. The American still retain prisoners war, for Puskin and Major -General Swiri- later as tongues of fire and then Federation of Labour has recent- there is still no peaceofwith Gerdow, Red Army Marshal Voros- as martyrdom, mysticism, misly estimated that fully one third many. But this is much more hilov's representative, informed sionary activity and an apostoof the Continent's labour force is than a matter of law-it is a matlate that swept off the world the him: made up of slave workers. These ter of morality. include not only war prisoners, "The Soviet Union is no longer Greek ideal of moderation and One solution is at hand and but also civilian workers deported fortunately disinterested in the question of the Roman indifference to truth. being considered. It from occupied countries or retain- is the substituution Bela Kovacs being handed over "Men were so much devoured by of displaced ed from among the expelled nat- persons for this passion of love that they to the authorities. of war. It ionalities in Eastern Europe. Here is estimated prisoners Balogh contacted the British left homes to spread the Good 80,000 DP's in Russia stands alone in shameful Germany arethat and U.S. representatives and News; young women became so eager to live and eminence-she has deported hund- work in France, thus enabling rushed to President Tildy. Vice - absorbed that they set their reds of thousands from the Baltic equal nuber of POW's to be an Premier Rakosi, a Kremlin man, hearts on divine espousals with reimmediately anounced he would the intermediary of the human." MONSIGNOR FULTON SHEEN States, Poland and other count- patriated. ries; her satellites have imitated broadcast and the Communists But obviously the key to The the Modern "Virtue." ordered all factory workers to He added: "Tolerance has de- her in a lesser degree. Fihally, lies with what Russia inlisten to the broadcast. This fire has gone out in the generated into indifference to slave labourers consist of politi- problem to do. It is imperative that The Smallholders prepared for Western world, the Monsignor truth, as right and wrong, good cal prisoners; it is estimated that tends Russian camps be opened the worst, but courageously the continued. Western civilisation and evil are given an equal foot. Russia holds between ten and to Unitedprison Nations inspection. Parliamentary Committee of Pri- has become "secular if not atheis- trig." seventeen million within her Failing this (and it does not seem vileges voted 8 to 5 against tic," he said, "and is no longer boundaries. achievable at present), President handing over Kovacs. concerned with "passion, zeal and The basic appeal of the "brown, Further, an additional inhuRakosi broadcast an appeal to fire, but with broadmindedness black and red fascisms" was that manity in the Russian program, Truman's policy of resisting Comexpansion ought to be the nation. President Tildy hint- which is now considered the they brought with them a fire seldom mentioned in a discussion munist ed to the Smallholders that the greatest of all virtues, as the man and passion, Monsignor Sheen about slave labour, included the given teeth by a flat refusal of relief, loans, credits, until such Red Army might march in. who cannot be made to make up stated, and the appeal of these of thousands of German time as Russia gives proof that The Western democracies sug- his mind about anything is called "isms" was negative. "They were presence women in the brutal battalions. she is not deliberately hamstringgested on February that broad, and he who has discovered protests," he said, "against a A recent CIP press service re- ing the recovery of 24 Germany and UNRRA aid might stop if a few principles to guide his life milk and water liberalism, a lease (March 20) contains the dehence of Europe by contonuing Kovacs was handed over. is condemned as narrow." spineless indifference to causes." positions of two German girls, the odious practice of slave labor.
Bela Kovacs Symbolises the Spirit
of Free Hungary
A Democrat who Resisted Red Aggression
One -Third of Europe's Labour
Force is Slaves
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Democracy Needs Passion, Zeal and Fire
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