Fraternity-Testvériség, 1952 (30. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1952-08-01 / 8. szám
5 TESTVÉRISÉG x x x x x-rare IN PLAIN AMERICAN A monthly page conducted by Edmund Vas vary TWO NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS were made recently to the already fairly long list of Hungarian publications in the United States: one of them is from a new Amercian, LAJOS FÜRY whose beautifully written and moving story of a Hungarian soldier who dies for his people in the last tragic days of old Hungary: “ÁRVA MAGYAR JÁNOS.” His book at once makes him one of the really outstanding American-Hungarian writers. The other one is a finely-spun and charmingly told old fashioned story in the Mikszáth tradition: “AZ ÁTKOZOTT KATINSZKY VÉGRENDELET” by our most popular veteran story teller SÁNDOR GONDOS. Lajos Füry is a young man, with a hoped-for long and successful writing career ahead of him. Sándor Gondos, on the other hand, while his years are more numerous, still enjoys the priceless possession that made him a unique figure among our contemporaries, that indestructible youthful spirit, which is wonderfully mirrored in his writings, and that delightful mellow and inoffensive humor that makes him today probably the only worthy successor of the master storyteller of lore, Mikszáth, wherever Hungarian is written. We strongly urge our readers to buy these books for themselves or as a gift to those who still find real delight in reading Hungarian books. Everybody will be richly rewarded by reading them. WHAT HAS BECOME of our blood- donaiion program? Everyday we listen to the distressed call of our government for more and more blood for our wounded boys and to the statements that the results is far below the most urgent need. We like to think of ourselves as good-hearted and generous people. We watch with moist eyes the TV giveaway programs through which some unfortunate people are given princely gifts, — but if we ask: how many of those weeping people perfomed this duty of blood-giving and thus actually saved the lives of American boys who are fighting for the future freedom of those TV watching people—: what is the answer? Do your duty as a Christian, a free man and an Americani HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS to the Reverend Andrew Szabó who just completed his thirtieth year as pastor of our Alpha, New Jersey and vicinity parish. In the history of our churches, which now covers more than 60 years, very few pastors reach this distinction. Äs an industrious and conscientious pastor, Reverend Szabó became the father and real leader of his people, a friend of everybody and a benefactor to countless unknown individuals overseas whom he helped materially in his indefatigable zeal to do good where the need is greatest. As a staunch friend of our Federation, he was and is always ready to further the cause of true fraternalism. May the Lord grant him many more years to continue his highly valued and appreciated work! MEMBERSHIP IN THE IWO which has been officially branded as an arm of the Soviet, proved to be costly for three women in Miami, Florida, one of them Hungarian. Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey denied citizenship for these three aliens, because they were or still are members of this fake "fraternal", which has a Hungarian section, named "Testvériség". The Hungarian woman is the only one of the three who still maintains her membership. All three tried to stress the point that they joined this outfit only to secure cheap life insurance, but the Judge brushed aside this contention. "I can't understand," said the Judge, "how you people can expect to be American citizens under these circumstances." And he asked the Hungarian woman how she happens to have nerve enough to go to the Court, requesting American citizenship, while she is still a member of this organization? COMMUNIST PARTY LOSSES — Communist party membership in this country is how only about 31,600, J. Edgar Hoover told a Congressional sub-committe recently. The revelations over the past few years about the extent of F.B.I. infiltration into that party, if such it can be termed, suggest that Mr. Hoover has adequate ways and means of obtaining accurate information. The reasons for the decline, he indicated, are greater public awareness of communism, plus the Stalinists’ own purge of their ranks to remove doubtful members.
