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...Corpus Christi Day last week, 3,000 people assembled before Budapest's venerable old Coronation Church for the traditional procession in which Joseph Peteri, bishop of Vacz, was to carry the Eucharist. But there proved to be some obstacles...
Warlike Nuns? The Communist attempt to break up Budapest's Corpus Christi procession was merely an incident in a new campaign waged by Hungary's Red regime against the Roman Catholic Church since the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty over two years ago. The ostensible cause: Hungary's Bench of Bishops had refused to support an anti-Western "peace" resolution of the Partisans of Peace, an international Communist front. When a group of Hungarian nuns refused to sign the "peace" resolution, one Red paper screeched: "These warlike sisters prefer to see burned and mangled corpses rather than healthy...
...second annual World Student Congress at Prague. Ostensibly this is a meeting of "students from over 64 nations...to seek ways in which the students of the world can jointly participate in working to insure peace." But if this meeting is anything like last year's Festival at Budapest, delegates from other countries will hear, from American student delegates, only that ours is a land with growing economic troubles, few jobs, and a good deal of discrimination against minorities...
...doubtful that this official delegation "will be anything approaching representative, if last year's group is an example of the Committee's handiwork. The Budapest "representatives" of the U. S. had this to say of their country last August: "...The greater part of American Youth have no jobs. America is run by economic royalists and military brass hats...To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall St. men can answer is 'Join the Army...'" What the Committee is most interested in this year is illustrated by requests in its blurb for information on: "Southern Schools...Dismissal...
...industry last week polled "elite schoolchildren" to find out just how to flavor the new "Elite Pupil" candy bar (target for the first year of the Five-Year Plan: 1,000,000). The children sampled bars of orange, vanilla and rum flavors. The country kids liked vanilla; those in Budapest, rum. So there will be two kinds. Said a Communist official of the candy trust: "Candies are no longer the monopoly of the wealthy capitalist children...