Szittyakürt, 1979 (18. évfolyam, 2-12. szám)
1979-07-01 / 7-8. szám
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION OF «itmköfcf VOL. V. No. 3-4. AUGUST, 1979 Official publication of the Revolutionary Council of the HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER MOVEMENT SPECIAL REPORT UN. DENIES FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO HUNGARIANS On Monday, February 26, 1979, the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) met at the United Nations Headquarters for one week to consider requests from organizations for consultatives status with the Council. 43 International organizations applied for NGO status and nine requested reclassification. Among the 43 Non-Governmental Organizations applying for status was the Hungarian Freedomfighter Movement (HFM), a de facto representative of the 1956 Hungarian People’s Revolution, providing documentation of 41 associations in 17 different countries. Our organization requested admission to ECOSOC on the grounds of being involved in important humanitarian issues with respect to economic, social, cultural, educational help and human rights for Hungarians world wide. A carefully prepared document about our organization was submitted to the NGO on May 10, 1978 and was accepted. On December 20, 1978 HFM received official notification from the NGO section of ECOSOC, that our delegation will be given the opportunity to appear before the Council Committee and prepare a statement and answer questions, in reference to our activities. In preparation prior to By: TIBOR MAJOR this important event, our organization has submitted a written request to the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of Hungary to either support or abstain in our pending case for NGO admission. The Embassy did not respond. R. R. Tibor Dömötör the Bishop of the Independent Hungarian Protestant Churches in the United States and William Roka the organization’s UN delegate visited the UN mission office of the United States and pleaded for their support. The US mission indicated, that they will support our application for admission. On February 26 a four member delegation of the HFM appeared at the United Nations Headquarters. The delegation consisted of: R. R. Tibor Dömötör, Bishop and former leader of the Hungarian Freedomfighters in Bekes Hungary, William Roka the HFM’s UN delegate, Prof. Andor P-Jobb, HFM’s President and Louis F. Molnár the Chairman of International Affairs. After a breef opening session of the Council Committee and the election of its Chairman Mr. K. F. Nyamekye from Ghana, the twelve representatives from: Chile, Cuba. France, Ghana, India, Iraq, Kenya, Sweden, Ukranian S.S.R., U.S.S.R. United States and United Kingdom went to a closed session, where none of the applicant organizations were permitted to be present. During the first few hours of the closed meeting nearly 40 organizations were processed. When the issue of admission of the Hungarian Freedomfighter Movement came up a heated debate split the twelve nations delegation into two camps. Under the leadership of the Soviet Union, the socialist and third world countries objected the admission of HFM. The United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden and Chile demanded that the delegation of HFM be given the opportunity to speak on the floor. The Soviet delegate violently objected to giving a hearing to our organization. THE SOVIET UNION CALLS UPON ROMANIA FOR HELP In spite of the fact, that Romania is not a member of the ECOSOC Council Committee, the Soviet delegate brought in the delegate of the Socialist Republic of Romania for help. Romania’s delegate took this opportunity to display a viscous attack on all exiled Hungarians. He declared, that we are the worst elements of the Hungarian nationality. We are unwilling to recognize the just territorial arrangements of the 1920 Versailles Treaty. We are those who want to engulf Europe in flame. We are a treat to international peace an security. Diplomats with years of experience have said, “there has never been such a session in the hisstory of the ECOSOC. ('Continued on page 4) CAPTIVE NATIONS IDEOLOGY With the development from clumsy little tubs to better ocean sailing vessels, by 1492 Christopher Columbus was able to cast off to America and soon it was understood in the Western world that the world was actually round and the oceans all flow together. Suddenly the international anarchy, the “Dark Ages” came to an end, just as the introduction of the hinged rudder which was ligned with the ships’ keel put an end to the unsure and clumsy steering (especially of the larger ships) from the side by steering oars. The time of colonization in a different form and by different methods from those of the Romans had arrived by the 16 th Century. Among the first nations with pretentions to power was Portugal which built giant carracks with which to sail to and colonize Africa, South America and the East. Portugal was soon followed by Spain, France, the Dutch, and the British and the struggle for new colonial territories brought much bloodshed and cruelty. By MÉN-APÓ Today many of the same ambitions are expressed by the demonstration of air power as France and Britain gave birth to the Concorde and just about the time the same time the Soviet Union flew their version of such a giant prestigious airplane. By the end of the 18th Century England had became as Great Britain, a world power mostly by sea and Russia had become the conquerers of Eastern Europe and much of Asia. Some of man’s natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge had deteriorated to lust for power and as it burst the bounds of the Middle Ages so the integrity of many men in their own historical habitat became violated: his land had been colonized. In America tens of millions of natives, the so-called “Indians,” have been robbed, raped, and forcefully assimilated into the blood of the colonizers—always in the name of Christianity. The world became a kind of free-for-all for any nation with adventurous and imperialistic inclinations. By the 20th Century from the ten million North American Indians less then one million remained. After W.W. II for political convenience it became popular in the West to name the newly occupied countries by the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe as "Captive Nations. ” By pure political showmanship, the United States Congress declared a “Captive Nations” week in 1959 and from time to time various ANNIVERSARY By Linda Frenzel Kotyk (July 20/79) Just ten short solar cycles past Mankind first trod the untouched lunar dust, Placing human print upon that alien orb, forever shattering the shackles of earthbound men and placing stars within his eager grasping hand. Yet on this vastly shrunken earthly globe still East and West are locked in foolish strife and still man refuses to raise his earth-blinded eyes above his petty quarrels and bickerings to behold the glory of that first celestial step, whose ripples in the virgin lunar dusty sea reach back to join all men in common quest. The future beckons Hungarian and Chinese alike to join together with their Turanian brothers and all mankind in exploration of our common universe. political leaders filled the air with weakly echoing speeches that proved to be ineffective again and again. As the pressure from the right and from the ranks of the countless refugees mounted the hypocritical Western leadership broadened the scope of the term Captive Nations to mean all newly acquired nations by the Soviet Union and by Red China —or Commemorating Years of CAPTIVE _ NATIONS PROCLAMATION ■ ■■nnsErcxsQil by the Communist Giants after W.W. II. Somehow the various Marxist states had been cleveerly excluded from such classification as well as only half of Germany, Korea or part of China and South East Asia are labeled as such even though all of those countries or territories are occupied by seemingly opposing forces and are considered as East and West or North and South. Then there is the case of Palestinia and the PLO led by Yasser Arafat! The United States foremost authority on the Captive Nations, the author of the original Captive Nations Resolution of 1959 as well as T
