EMPHATIC DENIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27211, 14 October 1949, Page 7

EMPHATIC DENIAL

Aid For Hungarian Primate Charges Against Cardinal Spellman NZPA— Copyright Rec 10 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York, said to-day that he had not given the imprisoned Hungarian Primate Cardinal Mindszenty, 30,000 dollars for anti-Soviet revolutionary f„t?o s tt h kss sjryife Ulfranian Foreign Nations Manuilsky, during the United Nations debate on Monday on - .alleged viola tions of / fundamental freedoms in Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania Cardinal Spellman said that Mx Manuilsky’s charges were charac teristic of a follower of Beelzebub. Cardinal Spellman, who spoke at. the airport after his return from a visit to Europe, said Americans had given millions of dollars, for ’ the relief of Dersons in war-stricken areas. lne money was used for food, clothing and medicine. He could not recall y specific transaction involving 30,000 do J Iffor 30,000 dollars democracy with its freedoms could be secured in any of the countries under Soviet domina; tion, all our soldiers; and their rela tives would know that it was tne greatest bargain since Manhattan was bought from the Indians. Cardinal Spellman concluded.

Mr Manuilsky alleged m the United Nations that Cardinal Spellman had given Cardinal Mindszenty 30,000 dollars two years ago to finance ai plot against the Communist regime in Hungary He further alleged that tne United States was backing what he called the “ revolutionary activities of the imprisoned Hungarian Primate. Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment foi espionage against the Hungarian Government.