European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ill a lit -tin1 boy scouts 1949 some 4,000 Nev Yorr Catholic boy scouts prayed for Mindszenty. Dpi ? a Wpm Little about him a  Thi. P i y v., followed  Hen Kin ton lat month Al cry be f in i ,./, Orn Fri unit Rij inc to let turn to to Hon my help Erie i a j Ope  i Luni  f us while ii  A Happ in afr i. That la to jilted stale floes no  to v Tian Omni uni i any r that i Cardinal i. In in it i ton a n poll ical  i Anol or r la on ii hat Ibex " i i Cornel i no. Be   in at Hie i no i Alin a i Toni of i i s lib aint i jiving. A i1 Piol an Mhairi i lie. Liia of i Mori Over tin of inn service Are All uni to a Rio i Arii a ii an. N a Nic i n c of in tin1 Poi til for if m Era ii if Ihl. Ii Vici Nilly hah or sent a two of ii a no Iii the Rai Dinal the libations they had too the  is at incommunicado. Ii inc  out in the past  Ill admit it. According to the legation be talks Volb no one out Ide he own Slaff except his Sowri adj Iii Molber. Inner Viess by news in to Aie re Al led apparently  asking him on sundays and religious Holiday nth Olla members of the Western lec Lions in Huape Are allowed to attend his mass in limited numbers. The total " Hiim a a ton la Cindy More than 20. An enterprising Indian Nev Sman once succeeded in talking to the Cardinal. A devout f Al och he obtained permission to ult Enil the a ism. All Ruai Fly he went up lil irl asked for confession. Could not Well ret use and Luff could not Well interfere few minutes private talk. Lith the arc Rickrim and hungarian but Morilles were worried about what nil dbl come out but the Story if it Ever appeared never1 renewed Huda Pesl kit her the reporter was in imitated li.s1 All the official incl Kiviat Ion or possibly the two Juht failed to communicate. The Cardinal has been learning Lei Lish and sometimes delivers Borl sermons in it but he is far from fluent. The refusal of american diplomats to Tulk about their Bouse nicest As they Homol Lack Call him in private is carried just about All the Way. Questions about what be has for breakfast or who pays � expenses simply remain unanswered. Last week the staff held n halloween party at Tho leu Atlon and in the skits mid to sikh they wrote about one another Tho Cardinal who not even mentioned. Ofori the Purly n costume affair some one did men lion hut it would be a great  a if Ull the gue Atu came dressed us 12 Admal  to be of fit the hungarian polier a Olill do As Pilicy a left. Chr of Cour was a vim. As a joke. J Oli i.j7,"n do not have the kind of sense of Bur for to a Picciati anything of that Orl. A Lually non of Tho to j a i ii faintly i rial. Ai Bially to.  ,.d him if  A. Not i it. Ii to i our in the Siirid of a i. Oak on ii i  thl i it a. That would la tin if Only hair a most of the Arn i an staff Intuit give up an evening or a Sunda.  couple of Ais to take i  it or Jar i is largely i taking on the Pii mis All night jul. In ea-.�. Any thu hould happen. Nothing much has and since of Stirne is paid complaints Are f a. The duly incl Urles Tak Ilik the Cardinal for a  at fixed Tinis in a narrow and Rathe gloomy Yourl Ard surrounded on three sides by the legation building. You bin is Olive look Down from the build ing on the fourth Side. These walks Are among the Cardinal s few chances for conversation. Members of the staff value the Opportunity of talking with him and incidentally of improving Niheu command of the difficult hungarian language. What they talk about though they won t say. On the first Day i Ever visited the legation in january of last year i saw the Cardinal in the third floor Hall a grave worried and surprisingly Short figure in Black cassock and Bright red Skull Cap. Lie was apparently examining a shelf of Hooks. Actually he May have been curious about me because visitors were rare. He looked me Over arid nodded politely but did not speak. At that Lime he had Only been in the legation about two months and apparently roamed the build ing freely. Since then i Bave caught Only u few glimpses of him. He seems to keep More and More to his own rooms. Ilis meals come up from the legation Coffee shop. The Small shiny enamel Kitchen in his apartment seems Little used lie likes  spiced hungarian dishes and a bottle of wine or Beer with his meals. He has a Sweet tooth and often thoughtful diplomatic wives will bake him a cake. Cardinal minds enly spends a Good Deal of his time Reading and writing with u Good variety of books and newspapers at his disposal. He is also an avid radio listener. At. Lid Liis health is Good that is one of tin few statements about him that Ameri can diplomats seem authori/. to make. It is not known what would happen though if he should full seriously ill and need Hospi Lul care. That s one of the prob lems that keeps the staff awake on those Long duty  by Don Walter staff writers a photos by Gene Bane the Harvest in on in  Charente a rolling Countryside of Lush Vineyard Between la Rochelle and an Goleme France. Yellow Green grapes piled High in horse drawn carts come in from the Fields to begin a Long patient journey through distilling and aging processes. Years hence they will have become an Amber coloured smooth and aromatic Brandy a liqueur unmatched elsewhere though often imitated. Cognac a tradition an Art a science and a multimillion Dollar Industry is As French As poodle dogs and perfume. Long ago the government defined what wines in France could be labelled Cognac the name taken from the chief town around which it. Is produced. Today it is protected by International treaties that Are effective in most countries. It is a natural product of wines Gath ered and distilled in a District of limited  this corresponds to the Borders of two departments in France s West Center Charente the an Goleme Region and Charente maritime the area for which la Rochelle is prefecture and chief City. Unlike the other wines of France the history of Cognac is Shorter but like Champagne its discovery was by Chance. Also like Champagne it became a great Success abroad. The town of Cognac has the same air of Prosperity As the Cham pagne centers of reims and Pernay. There is Good reason. Cognac largest Dollar earner in France brings in More than a billion francs a month. Although americans represent the third largest consumer after France and Brit Ain confusion and misunderstanding about the Brandy s origin and its characteristics Are widespread. Cognac while its Fame has spread far and wide still is largely the result of personal care and cultivation by thousands of Small wine growers. They in turn would never be Able to age or Market their product properly without the Aid of the great Cognac houses whose names Are synonymous with i 11 fall Over the world three Hundred Charente was Whit although some of out of the area no locally. The Chare particularly High lacked the re putt medics of Bonteai Mendouse popularity where abroad. Two phases in Brandy Are All Ribi both resulted Fri marketing the Nali according to or Scure dutch druggy persuaded sonic a wine so that it you Aiice and Good living Fly years ago the wine country and e wine was shipped of it was consumed wines were not of Quality. Also they i of the Graves and then enjoying tre n England and else origin of Cognac a to Accident and the difficulties inf in White wine. Explanation an of Hen living in Cognac lers to distil their in More economically transported. He sieved the distilled product could he ought Back to near Normal consistency by the addition of water when Consul to probably history s first instance of a notion there could be instant us Beni a the Charente Wien surplus of that Era also led Farmers t store either raw or distilled wine for viral years. This they did in Limousin ok1 casks. When ready for use it was Fouty that the once color less Brandy had risen transformed in texture taste an Cornell. Cognac is i Suomi twice. Each novem Ber the Farmers Fin Tup their Copper stills to begin the first it few in the transformation. A fire is Placid Vunder a Plain Copper vat into which Thow lne is poured. Slowly it is brought to Al boil gives off an alcoholic vapor pm tenses and become Brandy. � this is sold to h6 big firms most of them in Cognac by Jot hers in surrounding Small towns. Here lies quietly in Oak casks sometimes 3io 40 years in order to mature and improve. During this time it loses much of its alcoholic strength by slow evaporation through the Wood. On one Point every Cognac firm is agreed aging i Howood makes great Brandy but there is no such thing As an old old bottle of Cognac. It does not age in the bottle. Time Only works its magic on Brandy in casks. The Musty bottle palmed off As a priceless old Brandy is simply a fraud. The blending bottling and shipping companies have professional tasters who Sample Farmers stocks to determine which Cognac suits their needs. The final product is of unvarying Quality As opposed to most wines because it is a blend of various. Crops Ages and vineyards. The better characteristics of each Are sought after. After blending the Brandy is stored in 4,000-gallon vats to await bottling an As Sembly line process in which the Cognac passes through a network of pipes a refrigeration Plant that prevents clouding in Cognac shipped to warm climates the capping machines the wrappers and finally to the crating and shipping from. Labels strictly controlled by govern ment regulations indicate the Quality of Cognac. Sop very Superior old pal for example identifies older brandies. The three Star marking a Hennessy innovation similarly indicates Quality. Cognac also is categorized by the Region in the Charente area from which the grapes Are produced. Grande champagnes regarded As the finest coming from the District immediately surrounding the town. Second in Quality is Petite Cham pagne and so on Down through the various outlying zones is Bois Bons Bois Bois ordinaries and Bois  offer a wide Range of flavors and except for extremely rare Granite the firms usually produce blends made up of brandies frown several vineyards. Aside from France Britain leads the world in Cognac consumption. Last year this amounted to 1,210,000 liquid Gallons. The . Was second with 796,897, and Malaya third with 287,000. The Swiss sipped More Cognac per capita than any other nationality. Their consumption last year amounted to 265,000 Gallons. Finland managed 248,000 Gallons. The stars and stripes left enormous vol contain blended Cognac barrels of Cognac Mored away for the aging process. Cognac grapes being loaded into a cart for distillery. Left flasks Are being labelled before packing. Saturday the stars and stripes shipping department Cognac is sent All Over the world. Page 13