Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty. one of the most outstanding and courageous Catholic prelates. celebrated his 75th birthday in the friendly. but isolated environment of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. He lives there as a refugee in his own country ever since the repression of the Hungarian fight for freedom by the Soviet Union. Cardinal Mindszenty has become a symbol to all men of good will in the world. not only because of his lonely exile. but because of his courageous and uncompromising struggle for human rights. church liberties. and national dignity. despite overwhelming Communist pressures. His integration of faith and action in opposing the engulfing tide of economic. psychological. and police pressures against the Catholic and Protestant Churches have made his an unforgettable witness for Christ and his teachings.