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Czechoslovakia. elected to powerful central committee of World Council of Churches along with Bishop Albert Bereczky. Communist head of the Hungarian Reformed Church. World Council of Churches planned to hold its next world meeting in the United States in 1952 (world meeting scheduled every 4 years) but McCarranWalter immigration and security laws were passed by United States Congress forbidding entry of Communists or Communist sympathizers into the United States. September 16. 1951: Theologian Karl Barth. of Switzerland. accuses Bishop Bereczky (Hungary) of openly approving communism and that Bereczkys church press service sounded like the official releases from the Soviet Union. August 1528. 1952: Conference on faith and order of the World Council of Churches in Lund. Sweden. Large group of American Protestant clergymen. representing about 29 denominations. met in secret session with Communist Clergymen Hromadka and Bishop Bereczky. March 11. 1953: The radical Christian Century spearheads attack on McCarran immigration law in an editorial entitled "McCarran Act Revision a Church Priority." Christian Century is the recognized voice of the religious liberals in the United States of America. . Editorial states that "unless the McCarranWalter Immigration Act is revised in the current session of Congress its operation will probably keep out of the country many of the church leaders who should come from abroad to the 1954 World Assembly of Churches in Evanston." April 8. 1953: Senator McCarran replies to Centurys attack in a letter. and says: "(1) Untrue or (2) a shocking charge against many of the church leaders who should come from abroad." October 7. 1953: Christian Century. In an editorial entitled "Evanston Storm Warnings." urges local pastors to do a brainwashing job on members of their congregations so as to prepare them for the shock of Communist clergymen coming into the United States for World Council meeting. Century says that reporters who will cover World Council meeting "have been carefully briefed." Doesnt say by whom. but implies that they. too. will help out with the brainwashing job.