Personalities of the Church Playing a Leading Role in the Counter-Revolution

Personalities of the Church Playing a Leading Role in the Counter-Revolution

Hungary -- History -- 1956 -1962 -- Sources

Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Refugees

Memorandum

Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Principal contributor(s): Permanent Mission of Hungary

Héderváry, Claire de

OSA Archivum

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1957

Héderváry, Claire de

United Nations. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/rr-f.html

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Discusses political activities of Church personalities during the October - November events of 1956. Most of them were serving long sentences at the time when they were released by the revolutionaries. Information on the Jesuit newspaper "The Heart" which published the general demands of Jesuit order in 14 points, and also the abridged letter of Pope Pius the XII inviting the Christian world to support the "heroic struggle" of the Hungarian people.

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