Magyar Herald, 1994 (1-3. szám)
1994 / 3. szám
PAGE 2 MAGYAR HERALD 3rd QUARTER, 1994 I I I I I I I I I -The Magyar Club of Cleveland OFFICERS 1994 - 1995 PRESIDENT Dr. István. Tóth 25869 Euclid-Chagrin Parkway Richmond Heights, Ohio 44143 VICE-PRESIDENT Frank Dobos 4140 Diane Fairview Park, OH 44126 SECRETARY Anne M. Robinson 1231 Giesse Dr. Mayfield Hts., OH 44124 TREASURER Ruth Tóth 3301 S.O.M. Center Rd. Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 PAST PRESIDENT Frank Sötét DIRECTORS Lewis Robinson Louis Peskay James L. Hudak Theodore Tóth Ernie Tóth Eva Konya Gustav Enyedy, Jr. Louis Horváth Kori Smith HISTORIAN Dr. Dezső Ladányi AUDITOR William Köteles EDITOR Magyar Herald Dr. Stephen Szabó Tn T I I I I I I I I I I I I r June 4, 1994 was the 74th Anniversary of the Torturous Treaty of Trianon On June 4, 1920, at the Grand Trianon Castle, a delegation from Hungary signed a fourteen-part peace agreement which stripped Hungary of 72% of its historical land and left 60% of Hungary's population outside its borders. The lands which were detached from Hungary were home to 3,424,000 Hungarians. Of this number, 1,084,000 were incorporated into Czechoslovakia, 1,705,000 into Romania, 564,000 into Yugoslavia, and 65,000 into Austria. No other losing country in the First World War was punished severely as was Hungary.The victorious neighbors of the losing countries took only 10% of German pre-war territories and 8% of Bulgarian lands. Trianon or the Partition of Hungary More than one century ago, the great French ecclesiastical orator, Father Gratry sounded this solemn warning from the pulpit of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: "Every nation's homeland is sacred. If you destroy one of them, you mutilate the entire human race. He who wants to kill a people, takes up arms against God himself by attacking the living providential design of history. Our conscience tells us, it is a crime. And history adds, it is a futile crime. Thanks to God, our crimes are not only futile: they are also an unbearable burden, brin hing ruin and punishment upon the evildoer. " Deep nostalgia was prevalent everywhere during the first week of June, as the Nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Normandy, which resulted in the destruction of Hitler’s Third Reich. Tears flowed like blood at Omaha Beach, as we were watching the television presentations day after day. "At this place, let us honor all the Americans who lost their lives in World War II," President Clinton told about 8,000 Americans who gathered at the Normandy American Cemetery. "They were the fathers we never knew, the uncles we never met, the friends who never returned, the heroes we can never repay, " he said. Many in the crowd sobbed quietly as the sunlight broke through the clouds and reflected off the gravestones of the 9,386 Americans buried on a green hillside above Omaha Beach. They were young men "who gave their yesterdays for our tomorrows," as one sign over the gate of one hero's cemetery says. Among them, hundreds of American Hungarians. The writer of these lines alone officiated at the burial ceremonies of 36 young heroes whose graves are marked with small white crosses at the soldiers' section of Highland Cemetery. We still do not know how many hundreds more all over the nation. More than 200,000 soldiers were wounded and transported by airplane back home just from the European theatre of war. Life went on here back home on its everyday routine road. Just one interesting glimpse of everyday life in Cleveland from back then from Jim Konkoly's scrapbook (a Hungarian news writer): CBS Radio Network star Jimmy "Schnozzola" Durante was scheduled Continued on page 3
