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In an honest confession on behalf of higher brass, Colonel George S. Eyster, deputy chief of the Army Public Information Division, called the whole thing a "faux pas." Said the colonel: the report had been "improperly edited," and should never have been put out "with the philosophy that Americans might...
Mindszenty wrote his last pastoral letter. On the envelope that held it, he scribbled the now famous note to his clergy, advising them that any "confession" that might appear some day over his signature would only be the result of "human frailty." In other letters, he warned that he might...
The presiding judge asked: "Did anyone force you to make your confession?" Mindszenty answered: "No." The judge then mentioned the letter which Mindszenty had written before his arrest, repudiating any confession he might make. Said the cardinal: "I want to state that I see things differently now. I want to...
To illustrate his point Krayer recalled the "Reichstag Fire Trial" of 1934. The Nazis allegedly burned down the Reichstag, Berlin meeting place of German Parliament and then utilized the resulting national panic to take over the government. Once in power they arrested a Dutchman, charging him with setting the fire...
Suspicions that Mindszenty was drugged arise chiefly from the contradiction between his confession in court and his previous strong anti-Communist stand.