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The joint action of the British and French has left the world in a state of grotesque confusion, capped by the arm-in-arm collaboration of the Soviet Union and the United States within the United Nations. It is too early to know what will come of it all, but the very act of intervention and the circumstances in which it was initiated established two things: 1) two heretofore impossibly languorous nations of the West have, implicitly, rejected the suicidal generalization that force is necessarily an improper instrument for the effecting of any given purpose; and 2) Great Britain and France have shown the ultimate contempt for American indecision: they simply ignored us.

Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty is free. We join the free world in prayerful thanksgiving for his release, and in admiring tribute to the devoted men and women who purchased with their lives the victory that freed him.

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The joint action of the British and French has left the world in a state of grotesque confusion, capped by the arm-in-arm collaboration of the Soviet Union and the United States within the United Nations. It is too early to know what will come of it all, but the very act of intervention and the circumstances in which it was initiated established two things: 1) two heretofore impossibly languorous nations of the West have, implicitly, rejected the suicidal generalization that force is necessarily an improper instrument for the effecting of any given purpose; and 2) Great Britain and France have shown the ultimate contempt for American indecision: they simply ignored us.

Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty is free. We join the free world in prayerful thanksgiving for his release, and in admiring tribute to the devoted men and women who purchased with their lives the victory that freed him.