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              gown caused the Protestant ministers to dress in similar long gowns. Abuse of the  
              clerical gcmn has already taken place, German soldiers and Arrow Cross personnel  
              having made use of its protective value. There have also been sporadic  
              instances of priests being insulted, mainly by drunken soldiers. Thus, for  
              example, the deputy of the Prince Primate in Budapest was searched amidst aimless  
              revolver fire, his valuables taken and his secretary slapped, in another case, a  
              priest was beaten up because he protected women and refused to turn over the  
              sacramental wine. But, as I have already mentioned, the priestly jown constitutes   
 such an excellent safeguard that priests who dress in civilian clothes are  
              seized and dragged away as suspicious persons.  
 
 
            3. About the Prince-Primate we know little since the front around  
             Esztergcm is still in movement. The city af Esztergem itself has allegedly                                          '  
             changed hands several times. There are rumors both to the effect that His  
             Eminence has been placed under house arrest by the Hungarian Nazis and that his  
             Palace haa been sacked by the Russians. Janos Drahos and Gyula Matrai have  
             been beaten up.  
 
 
          4. The Bishop of Szekhesferhervar died as a result of the bombings and  
              the Bishop of Rozsnyo as the result of illness.  
 
 
                    5. The Hungarian Government at Debrecen has carried out the promised land  
              reform, according to which, in all probability, the whole of the church's wealth  
              will be sacrificed. (Stet). Under the leadership of Beresztoczy and Banass  
              negotiations are in course with the object of modifying the execution of the reforL  
 
 
                     6. In order to protect Catholic interests in new Catholic party (christian  
              Democratic People's Party) is being organized under the democratic banner. The  
              leader is Count Joszef Palffy. The party will work with completely new forces  
              and methods adequate to be identified with the old, mistaken, outmoded christian  
              party. The terrain is vary favorable for the new party. Great masses in both  
              towns and villages are disillusioned with communism the more so because the  
              Russians, who called themselves communists, which everyone believed, pillaged  
              the people everywhere and, through habitual raping of their wives and daughters,  
              made anti-communists of even those who had awaited the arrival of the Russians.  
              The people of the villages are fed up with the great land cymers and the other  
              seigneural Catholic leaders because they spoke of Christian Socialism and papal  
              encyclicals and their words remainted empty. This social dissatisfaction justified   
       the new party in its effort to bring about more radical reform and real  
              and integral solutions. This does not mean that the new party would like to  
              partition the holdings of the Church but will attempt to save what can be   
              saved in the chaotic situation created by the announcement of the execution  
              of the new land reform. I believe hat they wanto to introduce shortly the       
              Soviet Khalhoz system on the excuse that small people are getting land. This  
              is happening under Soviet pressure. The Provisional government continues to  
              prevent the official organization of the new party. they appear to recognizethe   
        new party's claim to existence in principle but in practice do not permit  
              the party to organize officially. Negotiations are now in progress in Debrecen