Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1978. július-december (32. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)
1978-10-05 / 38. szám
Thursday, Oct. 5. 1978 10- AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ LETTERS "OPEN ENCOUNTER” Raised as a second generation American, imbued with a special pride of nation (both my father and brother served in the U.S. Army) another value was added when I married a native-born Hungarian. Until then I had not fully appreciated the richness of another heritage and its contribution to the best in American life. Encounter with many people publishing this paper, brought insight and helped to focus it properly. Along with providing a true connection between the old and new world and its role in the building of America, came a better understanding of the ideas and people involved as anti-fascists in Horthy Hungary of World War II. What bearing does this have todav? American society is still grappling with its own concepts of democracy and needs all available reinforcement. In its outreach for standard-bearers who are still contributing to human freedom, this group of Ame- rican-Hungarians, proud of their democratic heritage, must be included. H.H. Lord Balogh on Hungary Lord Balogh, former economic adviser to the British cabinet and currently adviser to the British National Oil Corporation, who is Hungarian-born, was in Hungary recently for a working holiday at the invitation of the World Economic Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Society of Economists. Asked if he had ideas about the development of the Hungarian economy in the five years since his last visit, Lord Balogh commented: “I think the impression is extremely favourable, especially in the countryside. I mean, a total revolution in living standards has taken place: the houses, the cars, tractors and combine harvesters.” Lord Balogh delivered several lectures on economic subjects and had talks with leading Hungarian economists. Hungarian recipe PORK CHOP VÁSÁRHELY STYLE Ingredients: 2 lbs pork chops, 1 lb fresh or tinned butter beans or black-eyed Susans, 1 medium onion, 2 ounces of oil, 1 fresh green pepper, l tomato, 1 tablespoon paprika powder, 1 pint sour cream. Cook the beans in unsalted water. Meanwhile fry finely chopped onion in oil, add the powdered paprika and a little water, then the sliced chops (off the bone), the salt, the pepper and the tomato. Simmer in a covered pan. When the beans are cooked, pour them over the tender meat, add the sour cream, and bring to the boil over a low heat once again. Leave to stand for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. Noted Scholar Comments on Heritage I think it is important for those of us in the progressive movement in this country to remind ourselves of our heritage both here and abroad, both recent and far past. Such reminder will feed 'is with strength and inspiration. Ours is a country of immigrants including the original settlers from Northern Asia, and we ought to link our earlier progressive traditions with the current ones. Relatively recent immigrants and their descendants sometimes want (understandably) to “prove” their Americanism by an excessive chauvinism directed against what they conceive as being against USA. They end up by becoming conservative or reactionary because they have the mistaken idea that Americanism means being against all “foreign ideology” and against all criticism of the prevailing status quo. This mistake would dissolve if they would understand that the highest form of Americanism, its distinguishing feature, is devotion to the progress of the people, the progressive movement. And if they would see that this movement is contiguous with all progressive movements in all countries and that in fact, it is the progressive immigrants who have contributed the best in their foreign traditions to the best in our American tradition. So your educational work in this respect as reflected in your periodical, the Heritage, is most needed and most welcome. Howard L. Parsons Professor of Philosophy, University of Bridgeport ENDRE SIX CHAMPION OF PEACE FRIEND OF HONGARIAN AMERICANS Before World War L while studying at the Budapest University of Law, he began contributing to the social democratic daily Népszava and to the periodical Szocializmus. During the war he was taken prisoner by the Russians, and was one of the reserve officers who recognized the international significance of the 1917 October Revolution and joined the movement that showed the way out of the war and social backwardness. Understandably, he was unable to return to counter-revolutionary Hungary. He lived in the Soviet Union until 1945, engaged mainlv in academic work, and teaching for 12 years at the Moscow University of Eastern Nations. Soon after his return home he joined the diplomatic service and was appointed first counsellor and then minister to Washington, after which he worked in the Foreign Ministry. He was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister in 1953, and from 1958 to his retirement at the age of 70 in 1961, he was Foreign Minister. He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party Central Committee from 1959 to 1970. As he remarked in one of his autobiographical works, his life as a pensioner was perhaps still more active than before. He continued as a leading figure in the international peace movement, while also working as a scholar and a writer. His main work is a 3-volume History of Black Africa, published by Academia, Budapest in several langugages, including ENDRE SIK, a former Foreign Minister, President of the National Peace Council and member of the World Peace Council, has died at the age of 87. English. It remains a seminal work on African studies, and gained for its author an international reputation. For as long as his health allowed him Endre Sik continued to play an important role in the world peace movement, the European Cultural Society and in Hungarian public life. He was awarded a number of important Hungarian and foreign decorations, including the Banner Order of the Hungarian People’s Republic and the International Lenin Peace Prize. THERMAL WATERS IH HUNGARY Attracting people to Hungary for curative purposes is facilitated by the fact that Hungary is unique in the wealth of her thermal waters - more than any other European country. At present there are 545 thermal springs with water above 35 °C; of these 66 have therapeutic properties, and 157 are operated as thermal water baths, with a total capacity of 400.000 visitors a day. Every day 50 thousand visitors go to the country’s 22 curative • resorts, where, besides the thereapeuticbaths themselves, there are hospitals and sanatoria, with 3.000 beds and staffs of specialized doctors.
