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CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI IMPRISONED TWO YEARS

NEW YORK -- TWO YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE STEFAN

CARDINAL WYSZYLNSKI, PRIMATE OF POLAND, WAS

ARRESTED AND BANISHED FROM HIS SEE BY THE POLISH

COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT. THE 54-YEAR-OLD PRELATE,

WHO IS ARCHBISHOP OF WARSAW AND GNIEZNO, HAS

BEEN HELD INCOMMUNICADO SINCE THE END OF

SEPTEMBER, 1953, EIGHT AND ONE-HALF MONTHS AFTER

HIS ELEVATION TO THE CARDINALATE. THUS FAR NO

FORMAL CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST HIM, AND

HIS WHEREABOUTS ARE UNKNOWN. POLISH EXILES HAVE

REPORTED THE CARDINAL UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN

VARIOUS PLACES. LAST JULY THE AUSTRIAN CATHOLIC

PRESS SERVICE REPORTED THAT HE WAS RECOVERING

FROM A SERIOUS LUNG OPERATION AT OTWOCK, NEAR

WARSAW, WHERE A SANITARIUM FOR LUNG CASES IS

SITUATED.

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