MONKS CONFESS TREASON, SPYING AT PRAGUE TRIAL
(10 a.m.) LONDON, April 2, Official sources in Prague yesterday said that two more Roman Catholic monks pleaded guilty to high- treason, espionage and anti-State activities in Czechoslovakia's first big trial of Catholic churchmen. The Prague radio said that the defendants were Dr. Sylvester Braito, a 51-year-old Dominican friar, and a 40-year-old Redemptionist preacher, Jan Blesik. The two defendants pleaded guilty to high treason, on Friday at the trial’s opening session in the Prague State Court. A third pleaded “partly guilty” and three others pleaded “innocent.” Altogether 10 abbots and monks are on trial. The Prague radio said that Braito preached the overthrow of the Czech regime and Blesik “used his high position for high treason and espionage against the Republic.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23219, 3 April 1950, Page 7
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