Hungarian American Coalition News, 1992 (1. évfolyam, 2. szám)
1992 / 2. szám
PUBLICATIONS The U.S. Department off State and Post-War Hungary A new book entitled Wartime American Plans for a New Hungary, Documents from the U.S. Department of State, 1942-1944 by Professor Ignác Romsics of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest was co-published this fall by Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc. and the Committee for Danubian Research. Following a detailed introduction, Professor Romsics presents selected documents which describe the work of a special foreign policy advisory committee established by the State Department during the Second World War. The committee ’ s specialists prepared factual studies and recommendations regarding post-war Hungary. The documents contained in the book give evidence that the Americans supported a more favorable revision of the Hungarian borders drawn by the Treaty of Trianon. Professor Romsics’ introduction gives the reasons for the failure of this plan. The publishers of this historically and politically important volume feel that it belongs on the shelves of every university and major library. Since university and public libraries are currently struggling amid financial difficulties, we urge you to order several copies of the book and donate them to your local libraries. Available now at a special price of $25.00 per hardback copy (regularly $50.00). Order from Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 568, Highland Lakes, NJ 07422. tiques U.S. and EC policies on self-determination, including the tardy reaction to the break up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.... The book explains how the international community handled self-determination during the Cold War and examines three major developments in international law that can help the world community shape a better response. ...[The authors] introduce new categories of self-determination that better reflect contemporary realities and a check list of standards to guide the evaluation of self-determination movements. They discuss possible steps toward the preservation of an existing state and introduce a comprehensive set of criteria for U.S. recognition of new states.” The book can be obtained from the Brookings Institution Press by calling (202) 797-6258 or toU free (800) 275-1447. Educational Directory Our directory of educational programs between the United States and Hungary keeps growing and is now a 25 page long document. Following its review by an editorial board made up of Paul Fekete, Karoly Nagy and Peter Pastor, the directory will be printed and made available to members free of charge and to non-members for a minimal charge. Meetings on Hungarian History This year’s general meeting of the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History (AASHH) will be held within the framework of the American Historical Society conference, scheduled for December 27-30,1992 at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. The AASHH general meeting will be held on Monday, December 29, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Room of the Sheraton. Following the meeting, the first part of the educational video series, “Hungary — A Video History,” will be shown. (See article on the Video History, page 7.) The AASHH is also organizing a roundtable entitled ‘The Organization of Knowledge in the New World and the Old” to be held in the Caucus Room of the Shoreham Hotel on December 28th from 2:30 to 4:20 p.m. It will include a lecture by Swedish historian Péteri György on ‘The Decline of Wissenschaft: The Two-Culture Division and the Communist Takeover of Hungary’s Academy of Science, 1945-1949.” Self-Determination Board Member Frank Koszorús, Jr. participated in a study group in connection with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Project on Self-Determination. The culmination of the project was a publication of a book written by Morton H. HalperinandDavidJ. Scheffer entitled “Self- Determination in the New World Order,” published by the Carnegie Endowment and distributed nationally by the Brookings Institution Press. As noted by the announcement concerning the project, the book “cri-Vlsiting Hungarian Medical Scholars Program At the request of a number of Hungarian-Americans the Coalition is assisting in a program recommended by our Board member Géza Kadar, Jr., to establish professional contacts between Hungarian and American medical scholars. The program has already helped fund a visit by Dr. Attila Naszlady, head of the Hungarian CardioPulmonary Research Institute, to the Stanford University Hospital and the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The organizers are arranging to host next the President and Secretary of the Hungarian Medical Society. Tax-deductible contributions to this program should be sent to the Coalition office, made out to “Hungarian American Coalition,” with the designation they are for Visiting Hungarian Medical Scholars. 6 • Hungarian American Coalition News • Winter 1992
