Archbishop Joseph Mindszenty. The valiant prelate has always been a spokesman for individual freedoms and the right to religious freedom. He raised his voice against the antiSemitic excesses of the Germans and Hungarian Nazis in the late fall of 1944 in Hungary. and he scored in no uncertain terms the rape. looting. and deportation of the Red army and the tyrannical measures of the Communistdominated coalition government in 194748. His reward was a show trial where he was convicted illegally on charges which he did not commit in the sense of the prevalent laws and spent 10 years in Communist prisons before being liberated by the heroic freedom fighters in November 1965. Unfortunately. the cardinal. though living at the American Embassy since November 4. 1956. is prevented by the normal conditions for political asylum from exercising his episcopal responsibilities.
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