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...people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...
...speeding up the policy in Hungary, where the church has won concessions with painful slowness. Simultaneously with the Mindszenty announcement, the Vatican made public four new episcopal appointments in Hungary, including a resident bishop as the new "apostolic administrator" in Esztergom, who will perform the archbishop's duties until a new one is appointed. Even so, that leaves seven of Hungary's eleven dioceses without full-fledged bishops. In Vienna, Mindszenty obviously thought it a bad bargain. Said he: "Hungary and Hungary's Catholic church are not free...
...image had been tarnished in recent years. The campaign of bombings, kidnapings, and assassination attempts that his revived underground organization, EOKA-B, conducted against the government of Archbishop Makarios had become increasingly unpopular among the island's inhabitants. Most Cypriot Greeks, while holding to enosis as a political ideal, had long recognized the impossibility of forcing the island's Turkish minority (20%) into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before...
After Grivas' death, Archbishop Makarios proclaimed an amnesty for all imprisoned and wanted EOKA-B members; in response, Grivas' successor as head of EOKA-B ordered a stop to all terrorist activities. While not officially identified, the new commander is thought to be Major Vassilios Kourkafas, a relatively unknown Greek army officer. There remained some concern that the more fanatical elements of the EOKA-B would renew the terrorist campaign, but observers wondered how long the band of several hundred men would survive without Grivas' leadership...
...Archbishop of Canterbury had another explanation. "I think it's part of the religious trend that's going on, the craving for the supernatural, the interest in the nonmaterial," said the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour. "Genuine cases of demonic possession are a minority," he added. "If there's an immense craze on the subject, it is a sign of spiritual immaturity...