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Page 4 wirr« OCTOBER 1981 HUNGARIAN ORIGIN ON THE ORIGIN OF THE HUNGARIANS IN ORIENTAL LIGHT AS DR. TIBOR BARATH SEES IT:-tf ft Í. 'M A ® £ TURANIAN PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE! of the West to these events been adequate? Ignoring the issue of arms or money, it more basically remains the question of intellectual and moral response. As Albert Camus has noted, “we have no business to be generous unless we were to offer our own blood.”21 NOTES 1 Ferenc A. Váli, Rift and Revolt in Hungary, preface. 2 Frederick H. Hartmann, The New Age of American Foreign Policy, p. 201. 3 Váli, p. 354. 4 Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology, p. 326. 5 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Waging Peace: 1956-1961, pp. 98-99. 6 Coral Bell, Negotation from Strength, p. 74. 7 Coral Bell, Ibid, p. 75. 8 Ernest Lefever, Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, p. 151. 9 Frank L. Kluckhohn, The Man Who Kept the Peace, pp. 27-28. 10 Ibid, p. 39. 11 William Hyland and Richard W. Shryock, The Fall of Khrushchev, p. 34. 12 Edward Weintal and Charles Bartlett, Facing the Brink, p. 210. 13 Isaac Don Levine, Intervention, p. 70. 14 Tamás Aczél, Ten Years Later, p. 21. 15 Joseph S. Roucek, "The Radio Free Europe and the Satellites,” Social Studies, XLVI1, December, 1956, pp. 279-280. 16 David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government, p. 336. 17 Ibid, p. 326. 18 Frank Kluckhohn and Donald Ackerman, The Real Eisenhower, p. 123. 19 Report of the Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary, p. 139. 20 Robert Murphy, Diplomat Among Warriors, p. 432. 21 Albert Camus, "Hungarian Blood,” Nemzetőr, I, November, 1957, p. 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Aczél, Tamás, Ten Years After: The Hungarian Revolution in the Perspective of History, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Bell, Coral, Negotation From Strength, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Bell, Daniel, The End of Ideology, New York, The Free Press of Glencoe, 1960. Camus, Albert, “Hungarian Blood,” Nemzetőr, I: 1-2, November, 1957, Vienna. Eisenhower, Dwight D., Waging Peace: 1956-1961, New York, Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1965. Hartmann, Frederick H., The New Age of American Foreign Policy, London, The Macmillan Company, 1970. Hyland, William and Richard W. Shryock: The Fall of Khrushchev, New York, Funk E. Wagnallis, 1968. Kluckhohn, Frank L., The Man Who Kept the Peace, New York, Columbia Heights Press, 1968. Kluckhohn, Frank L. and Donald Ackerman, The Real Eisenhower, New York, Columbia Heights Press, 1969. Lefever, Ernest, Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, New York, Meridian Books, 1957. Levine, Isaac Don, Intervention, New York, David McKay, 1969. Murphy, Robert, Diplomat Among Warriors, New York, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1964. Report of the Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary, United Nations: Eleventh Session, supp. no. 18, New York, 1957. Roucek, Joseph S., “The Radio Free Europe and the Satellites,” Social Studies, 47: 279-281, December, 1956. Váli, Ferenc A., Rift and Revolt in Hungary, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1961. Weintal, Edward and Charles Bartlett, Facing the Brink, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967. Wise, David, and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government, New York, Random House, 1964. GLORIA VICTIS 1956 fL25J 1981 1. While writing his “Ancient History of the Hungarians” (3 vol., in Hungarian: A Magyar Népek Őstörténete, 1969/74), the author Dr. Tibor Baráth of Montreal, Canada, made the surprising discovery that a considerable part of ancient Near Eastern documents are written in a Hungarian dialect and therefore can be read with the help of the present Hungarian language. These documents derive from the first four milleniums B.C. and were prepared either with Egyptian hieroglyphs or with linear (“geometric”or “carved”) signs then fashionable in Transylvania and in the Eastern Mediterranean Zone. The discovery will certainly have a great impact on the future elaboration of Hungarian ancient history, and will influence general history as well. Two major modifications already prove unavoidable: (a.) We have to agree that the history of the Hungarians, and also that of the various peoples affiliated with them, begins in the Danube region and in the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, Syria-Canaan): and (b.) That these peoples contributed greatly to the elaboration and to the development of the first Higher Civilization of mankind. 2. The Hungarian speaking population of Transylvania and the ancient Near East began sending out groups of emigrants (both large and small) early on, especially to the Middle Danube Basin, Attracted by its immense wealth. In fact, there they could find almost everything they were accustomed to in their cradlelands. There was plenty of gold, copper, obsidian, there was good soil for cultivation of cereals, good hunting, large pastures for stock-breeding and numerous large and small rivers. In a word, it was the country the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlers had dreamed of. That these first Danubian settlers were using an early Hungarian language follows clearly from the multitude of place-names they left behind which have only Hungarian meanings. Sometimes these names are exactly duplicated in the Near Eastern placenames, or else include the names of oriental divinities (Ra, Baal, Toth). Also, the Oriental geometric script was conserved in Hungary until the 17th century A.D. and one of the important specimens of this writing was found in Tatárlaka (Transylvanian Tartaria) on a Bronze Age solar observatory, which was originally used to determine the exact day of the summer solstice. Hungarophon human beings were the first permanent dwellers of the Middle Danube Basin and they are to be credited with the creation of the first two states there in the Bronze Age: the one in the western half of the Basin (today called Tran- Transdanubia), and the other in the eastern half of it (today Transylvania). These first permanent settlers of the Danube Basin did not die out, nor were they driven away, but continued to florish in subsequent times without interruption until they were eventually joined by other Hungarians pouring out of their Caucasian and Caspian secondary homes during the first millenium A.D. 3. Another large group of ancient Near Eastern Hungarians crossed the Caucasus Mountains and installed themselves in the vast plain of Eastern Europe. There they split up and one branch marched towards the North, along the Dnieper River and eventually settled in the Baltic area, there founding Esthonia, Finland and several other minor states. A second branch advanced along the Volga River, always on the right bank, until it settled down in the Middle Volga area and the Kama region. The descendants of both of these branches are living in their respective areas up to the present. 4. What happened to that part of the early Hungarian population which stayed behind in their cradleland, the ancient Near East? They were overrun by desert peoples, mainly Semits (the assyrians) during the second and first milleniums B.C. and were cruelly exterminated or driven out of their ancestral home. Those who escaped the wholesale massacres, set sail in successive waves for southern and western Europe, linked up with their brethren already in place, and peopled the lands later called Italy, France and Great Britain, etc. As a consequence of their earlier expatriation and later dispersion, large parts of Europe became Hungarophon territories in the Bronze Age. They formed the mysterious ethnic “substratum” of Western Europe, which linguists have been reluctant to identify until now. We know who they were, however; by the thousands of placenames they bequethed us. These names have original Hungarian meanings and serve as treasures of linguistic studies. On the other hand there are a great number of words the Etruscan Latins, Germans, and Brithons had in common with the Hungarians. Another group of evidence for the existence of a Hungarian ethnic substratum in Western Europe consists of several archeological finds bearing short inscriptions deciphered in Hungarian by the author. 5. The above outlined new vision of Hungarian ancient history has been chiefly elaborated by scholars now living outside the boundaries of Hungary. Up until now, the Hungarian “official” historians indeed showed virtually no interest in this new field of research. Only in the last couple of years have new signs become discernable which indicate that a favorable change is in the Jju&pevidence, the author concludes that offing. This is a welcome event! mM «T C 9 English language publication of the rivn IKK HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER MOVEMENT Edited by the Revolutionary Council STOP: WE MUST AU WORK TOGETHER Please remit all correspondence to: P. O. Box 534, Edgewater Branch, Cleveland, Ohio 44107 Copies may be obtained for $1.00 Primed by Classic Printing Corp.. 9527 Madison Ave.. Cleveland. Ohio 44102
