Magyar Hírek, 1985 (38. évfolyam, 2-26. szám)
1985-04-06 / 7-8. szám
Károly Goldmark Cultural Fund Sports news Radio Hungary in English Farewell to Lord Balogh Aurél Varannai, a well-known veteran journalist wrote to the Editor of Magyar Nemzet: Many of our compatriots acquired honours and respect outside our frontiers. Some are scientists, others artists or businessman. The careers of the two Budapest boys, which led them to London, to Westminster, to the House of Lords are extraordinary: Lord Balogh and Lord Káldor set out together from the Budapest University, where they studied under Professor Ákos Navratil, an outstanding economist, to eventually receive peerages as universally respected economists, one as a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, the other of King’s College in Cambridge. They both studied at the London School of Economics. Balogh later went to the United States, to the Harvard University. But the years in London had a decisive influence on his career. Both Balogh and Káldor became close friends of Harold Wilson, the future leader of the labour Party, and Prime Minister in the sixties. Wilson chose Balogh and Káldor as his chief financial and economic advisors. Lord Balogh married the daughter of an English Bishop; nobody spoke Hungarian in his family, but he, who left our country at the age of seventeen spoke his native tongue fluently, without any accent, as we heard him any longer to Hungary, there were no living relations of his here. Yet he still remained a Hungarian. This is what I should like to remind of recalling our last meeting in London. I spent a few weeks in London in the late sixties. I wanted to say good-by to “Tom”, my dear old friend before I went home. He asked me to visit him in the afternoon at the House of Lords. We were sitting in a hall overlooking the Thames— portraits of ancient kings and peers looked down on us. I admit, I was deeply moved. When the time came to say good-by, nostalgy broke forth from Balogh: “You know, when I want to eat something decent, I send for a plate of Hungarian stuffed cabbage.” AURÉL VARANNAI “Saving a culture, many of whose bearers were victims of fascism”: this is the aim of a foundation of general interest that took and name of the composer Károly Goldmark. In the words of those, who initiated it: “The aim and purpose of the Fund is to provide financial aid in addition to the (relevant) activities of government organizations for the purpose of saving, cultivating and studying Jewish culture”, in order to save “a fraction of the values that would become lost, forgotten, or decay for the lack of money.”" Let us list some of the things included. The saving of architectural values, finding new functions for them, visual saving of values that can be photographed, the study Jewish folk-music, religious and lay, inter-ethnic relations of this music, publication of literature and records on the subject, “studying the interaction of Hungarian literature and Jewish culture, and in general exploring the objects and cultural relations of the Hungarian Jewry by way of ethnographic, historic, sociological, art-history and other methods. Thus the foundation is trying to do something about preserving a heritage, or at least to awaken awareness in what has still survived in the yet unploughed headstones of uncared for Jewish village cemeteries, what can be studied in the special architecture of masterless Jewish synagogues, what has assumed body in neglected books, musical instruments, commodities and ritual objects. The twenty two member board of the Fund includes Dr Katalin Dávid, the chief-inspector of Religious Collections, Dr. Tamás Nyíri, a professor at the R. C. Theological Academy, and the Head of the National Rabbinical Training College. Members of the board are also outstanding authorities in their own fields, who make their expertese as well as their work available to the foundation. There are writers, poets, film directors, theatrical directors, historians and economists, ethnographers and librarians, doctors and composers among the forty foundation members, who provide financial contribution commensurate with their ability in order to realize the above aims. The deed of foundation—from which we quoted—also reveals that the money collected is to be used partly to provide funds to institutions and individuals which and who organize cultural, musical and scientific events in has money with the aims of the Fund and people, who do outsanding research or practical work in the interest of the aims described. The founders deposited the capital of the Fund in favour of current account No. 218—98079 opened with the Tanács körút branch of the National Savings Bank. Contributions may be sent by anybody, giving their name, or anonymously, to the Goldmark Fund, Current account No. 1430. As the deed of foundation Dut it: The nation must not permit that cemeteries, pictures, articles of devotion, sheet music and books should perish which preserve the values of this culture!” Professionalism in Sports The daily Magyar Nemzet published an article on a sensitive problem: the situation of competitors who made a living out of sport. New economic regulations made their financing precarious. The article started with a concrete example. It seems that the ice-hockey players of FTC—twelve men—are going to lose their positions with the enterprise that supported the team, which played rather well in the championship, because “regulations forced the enterprise to take strict measures of economy in respect of the labour force .. . therefore it can no longer pay wages to the players.” One ot the executives of FTC revealed that this applied not only to hockey. Enterprises no longer wish to carry the financial burden of sportsmen on their wages bill. “It was an accepted practice”—he said —“that athletes of certain categories were entitled to working time allowances did not regularly attend to their job ... The enterprises did not protest, and the competitors also accepted the situation but at the end of their sports carreer, when many of them found themselves in a vacuum, they realized that this standing apart was not the ideal situation.” "The most important task that will face sports leader in the near future will be to find a solution for these problems. On the one hand we will have to help everybody treating each case individually ... Considerable sacrifices will be needed. At last, after many years of vain struggle we may succeed in reducing the members of well paid, yet poorly performing people. Now we may reach the stage when only those will make a living out of sport, whose performance justifies their income.” The situation of some five thousand people, who made their living principally out of sport has thus become insecure. Nobody knows what will follow. “In the coming months” —concluded the article of Magyar Nemzet—“we shall report on the changes that effect the economic bases of Hungarian sport.” Esti Hírlap an evening paper, published data about a club, which apparently already found a way out. The executive president of the Pesterzsébet club ESMTK, László Téglás said that the club had eight sports sections: football, power-boating, bowling, table-tennis, judo, athletics, handball, cycling. Of these the power-boaters and the women tabletennis players compete in the top class, the men’s table-tennis team competes in the second class, and the others at lower levels. ESMTK has 600 registered sportsmen and women and 1,400 youngsters attend preparatory training courses. The club co-operates with several schools in promoting sport. “All this costs five million forints a year”—continued László Téglás—“and the club succeeded in raising that without patrons. Half of it comes from the profits of two sports restaurants, the other half from advertising contracts and state subsidies.” The programmes are broadcast in English on Tuesdays and repeated on other days as presented below. April 30th to May 6th Budapest, at the turn and in the early years of this century. Theatres, concert halls and the cabarets. Budapest emerging as a major industrial centre. Newspapers and journalists. May 7th to May 13th The decline of the Austro—Hungarian Monarchy in the years leading to the First World War. The situation of Hungary and the Hungarian within the Monarchy. May 14th to May 20th Society and art in the early years of this century. May 21st to May 27th The portrait of Kázmér Nagy. He left the country in the late 1940’s to live in Australia and later in Britain. He returned home in 1982 and published a book in 1984, which discusses the Hungarian emigres in the western world: their life, views, conflicts and problems and approach to their native land. May 28th to June 3rd Hungary in 1944, the penultimate year of the holocaust. The position of the Pope and the primate Jusztinián Serédi on the issue. The programme is based upon documents about the events of 1944 released recently by the Holy See, and also an interview made with Monsignore Gennaro Verolino, a retired official of the Vatican who comments on the events by recalling and relating his memories. Each instalment is broadcast five times during the week. The programme is transmitted first every Tuesday at 19.00 (or 3 p. m. North American Eastern Standard Time). It is then repeated four times according to the following sequence: —every Wednesday at 01.30 GMT (or 9.30 p. m. North American Eastern Standard Time); —every Friday at 19.00 GMT (or 3 p. m. North American Eastern Standard Time); —every Saturday at 01.30 GMT (or 9.30 p. m. North American Eastern Standard Time) and —every Monday at 04.00 GMT (or Sunday midnight North American Eastern Standard Time). The programme on Tuesdays and the four repeats on the days listed above are transmitted on short wave on the 25, 31, 41 and 49 metre bands, that is, on 11910, 9655, 9585 and 6110 kHz, respectively. For further information or details please write to The Editors of Hungary’s History Serial c, o Szülőföldünk Magyar Rádió 1800 Budapest 63
