Mr. Maher Says Trial Of Cardinal Was "Outrage"

Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1949, Page 4

Mr. Maher Says Trial Of Cardinal Was "Outrage"

New Zeaiand couid make a pracical prqtest agains-t the , Car'dihal 4indszenty outrage by WithdfaWmg ts M^hiStei* to Moscow, Mf. BOSf vell, said Mr.'J. -J. Mahef, M.P. fof 'btaki, ih wellington, yesterday.in his farewell letter to the tremlin, Mr. Boswell 'could then say his departure was a protest not miy agalnst Communist attacks oh ihe chdrch, but aiso agaihSt ' the 8oviet system of concehtratidh Camps, added Mr. Mdher. The attack ori the dardinal was a demonstration of the attitude of

Communists to people who opposed chem. "I wish to say that the whdie performance has made me ashaiiied ahd disgusted," he said. "We all knoW .that Russia has earried on the concentration camps that Hitler started. Accordirig to Press reports in the iast day or, two they are at iast being tackled in the United Nations. I do not believe that we shoUld have any of4ficial truck with a nartion that behaves in this way, arid it is hopeless for anyone to suggest that the Hungarians, or other Communist people, are acting on their own initiative. Everybody knows that it is inspired from Russia, and it is I agalnst Russia that we should J make our protest. if New Zeaiand is- sincere in its opposition to these things then the Government will at once withdraw Mr. Boswell."