Amerikai Magyar Értesítő, 1990 (26. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1990-10-01 / 10. szám
12.oldal activists in the Western World exploited the French fear of the Germans (contemptuously called "Bosh") who in the war of 1871 tore away Alsac-Lorraine from France. The three new succesor states to Austria-Hungary believed that forming the so-called "Little Entente" would be a strong bulwark agains German or Russian expansion. Two decades later the Little Entente melted away without one single revolver shot» although the Serbs tried some defense against the German army. The Roumanians, however, allied with the Germans and fought the Soviets, and only in August, 1944 changed sides. In December, 1916» the Central Powers (Germany, Austr ia-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey) sent to the Allied Powers (Triple Entente) an elaborate peace offer, proposing the restoration of the 1914 status quo. The Entente rejected the offer, insisting on the "liberation of the Slav and Roumanian minorities". It seems strange short-sightedness, as the war was prolonged two more years, the dead increased by 10 million, and the communist regime was installed in Russia. On April 18» 1917» the U.S.A. entered the war, which enlarged it to a world war. All other belligerents had some true, or painfully invented, moral justification to fight, except the U.S.A. The publicized U.S. reason was the sinking of the Lusitania and other ships. On the basis of prevailing international law, the sinkings were legal. The ships transported travellers and contraband munitions at the same time. The U.S.A. government committed conspiracy and trampled the Monroe Doctrine. In January, 1918, President Wilson, in the name of the whole Entente, made an open overture to the Central European powers that if they would agree on cease fighting a just peace could be established on the basis of his famous 14 points. The moral resistance of the Central Powers' armies was undermined, because the tenth paragraph promised only "the assurance of the autonomous development of the peoples in Austria-Hungary" and not the wholesale dismemberment of the dual monarchy. But all these promises were not kept, even by the American government. After a cabinet meeting of November 4» 1918» Secretary of State, Lansing, issued a declaration promising support "for Roumanian political and territorial rights..." An international treaty is void when it is concluded because of stress or force upon the negotiators and "gross error, fraud, such as use of forged maps, to vitiate a treaty". In 1990. október the Palace of Trianon, indeed, the maps used were all forged — a small brook the Ronyva was a "navigable river". The occupation armies and the regime of Kun (Kohn) Béla, a communist ally of Moscow, applied all the elements of coercion, fear and force. "All powers interested in making an international treaty should be invited* -- says the international law. Hungary was neither invited nor permitted, to participate in the deliberation of the Treaty of Trianon. When the treaty was ready, the Paris conference ordered a Hungarian delegation to receive a copy of that treaty. The delegates were real prisoners; their objections could be forwarded only in writing, and were not given any consideration. Thus the treaty of Trianon, from every point of international law, is null and void from the first minute of its existence. It is no wonder that Hungarians, proud and tenacious fighters, transformed Trianon to its Latin meaning — "Three times none: No, No, Never?!" FRANCIS FAZAKAS KIEMELT ARANYDÍJAT NYERT önarcképével Suszter Magdolna tatabányai kislány a japán televízió által meghirdetett nemzetközi gyer- mekrajzfesztiválon, amelyre 67 országból 73 EZER rajzot küldtek be a gyerekek. A magyar kislány két ezüst és öt bronzérmet is nyert, a tatabányai gyermekrajzszakkör tagja. Milyen kár, hogy a szakkör vezetőjének nevét "elfelejtették* közölni. Pedig talán neki is van - nem kis - érdeme a sikerben! A "MÁGUS", A "TANÁR ÚR", Rubik Ernő, a bűvös kocka atyja eltávozott Magyarországról, fe- leségestől, gyerekestől. Angliába ment, ott telepedett le. Még tavaly év végén azt nyilatkozta: "Számomra mindennek a kezdete, eredete és középpontja ez az ország, és ez a város, Budapest." Igaz, a kommunista ország csöppet sem kényeztette el, senki sem lehet próféta saját hazájában. De a nemzetközi siker meghozta számára az elismerést, amit azután otthon sem tagadhattak meg tőle. És meghozta számára az anyagi sikert is, talán bővebbet, mint amivel még élni tudott. Neki igazán nem voltak anyagi gondjai. Ki tudja, miért ment el mégis? BUDAPESTEN TARTJÁK NOVEMBERBEN a Varsói Szerződés csúcsértekezletét. Csak remélni merjük, hogy az utolsót. Ahogyan létrejötte Varsóhoz kötődött, megszűnésének dicsősége Budapestet illeti. Végülis már 1956-ban ezt akartuk! Amerikai Magyar Értesítő /
