Fáklyaláng, 1960. október (1. évfolyam, 3. szám)

1960-10-23 / 3. szám

- 21 -refugees hiding in the safety of the marshes would be able to see where the Russian patrols were marching before making their dasn to freedom. Out of the shadows came a young man himself newly arrived in Austria and he turned to the marshes and did not return for an hour, but when he returned behind him came 300 other refugees who had fjund a leader willing to risk his life to save theirs.

! am frequently asked: But what could we have don to help them? I say that there was a great deal that could have been done. First of all, our government should never have announced its intentions not to intervene directly. This was done by the President on October SOth, !956, and from that point Khrushchev knew that he could move with Russian troops into Hungary without fear of reprisal. Secondly, we should have recognized the new government of Hungary immediately and sent a top ranking diplomat, possibly our own secretary of state, to Buacpest to signify our willingness to stand behind the Hungarians in their struggle. We find it possible today to mobilize the full energies of the United Nations to intervene in the chaos of the Congo. Yet was it impossible to mobilize those same energies, to send these same planes, to send those same troops to Budapest while that nation remained free before the Soviet mcssacre and intervention of November 4th?

And now we are invited to participate in the greatest of the insults. Not only does Khrushchev invite himseif to the United Nations ana to the United States but he brings wirb him the butcher of Budapest, the infamous Kádár. Can we be expected to remain silent in the face of such humiliation? We must speak with a unified voice in our nation to remind the world that we Americans have not forgotten Hungary, nor have we forgotten the freedom fighters who wrote such a rich page in the book of history. We are privileged to enjoy freedom in the United States. It has been our heritage, it has been our history. But let us remember that the shot fired around the world in 1776 was heard again in the streets of Budapest in 1956. The revolution of America was a revolution for freedom and for liberation. It is the meaning of those words which we cannot forget. I pledge myself to the Cause of Hungarian freedom and to those brave men who fought so valiantly in 1956 for the liberation of their ■ homeland.

NAPI ESEMÉNYEK A HAZA! SAJTÓ TÜKRÉBEN - MAGYARORSZÁGI

HJ LYZ_E_T_K EP

AUGUSZTUS 20 - SZEPTEMBER 30

Az irányelvek, amelyeket "oktatási rendszerünk továbbfejlesztésére" az u.n. "Magyar Fcrrcdalmí Munkás-Paraszt Kormány" áital megbízott Iskolai Reformbizottság terjesztett a "Népszabadság" olvasói elé "megvitatás céljából" híven tükrözik vissza azt a következetes borr.laszíási folyamatot, amellyel az "uj osztály" el akarja távolitani a tanulóifjúságot a családtól, vallásos és hazafias érzelmei ápolásától. Az "uj rendszerben", mondja az irányelvek 3. §-a ".. .az oktatd-neveló' munka tervszerűen szolgálja a szocialista világnézet és erkölcs kialakulását." S itt Önkéntelenül felmerül a kérdés: mi is az a "szocialista világnézet és erkölcs", amelyet a legnagyobb eró'feszités mellett sem sikerült meghonosítani Magyarországon az elmúlt 15 esztendőben? A választ erre már sokan megadták, mi csak egy mondatban szeretnénk összefoglalni: "megtagaaása minden abszolút értéknek, amely az ember