Fraternity-Testvériség, 1952 (30. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1952-04-01 / 4. szám
16 TESTVÉRISÉG Danneberg, the moderate leader of the Viennese socialists, who died after four years of agony in concentration camps. When Hitler occupied the Sudetenland six months later, fleeing Jews were again being driven back by Dr. Benes’s police.” 20) Mr. Montgomery also notes the following fact: “Up to March, 1944, Hungary was the only country east of the Pyrenees where the lives of Jews could be considered secure. Besides the Hungarian Jews numbering almost one million, sixty to seventy thousand Jewish refugees from foreign countries had fled to Hungary, and lived there in safety until Hitler’s armies occupied the country and ordered their systematic extermination.” 21) The author of the volume “Information Please”, is not the first American to be taken in by the artifices of Czeh propaganda, nor is he the last one. Bearing false witness seems to be a Czeh trait running in the blood, which they themselves can not help. Whether or not the fact recorded by Count von Liitzow to the effect that, following the disastrous defeat of “Bila Hora” (White Hill), Nov. 8, 1620, Bohemia “lost all individuality” has anything to do with this strange phenomenon, can only be conjectured. Applying the name of “the most despised tribe known in Western Europe” to the Czehs, antedates the White Hill disaster more than two whole centuries. We shall, in all likelihood, come nearer to the truth by assuming that the Czeh loss of individuality dates back to the Huss period and particularly to the sanguinary battle of Kralové Hradec, in 1423. (13) In May, 1918, the present writer and a number of other pastors of his faith were granted an audience by President Woodrow Wilson. They were cheered by the assurance given by the President, “I know the history of the gallant Hungarian nation.” Upon leaving the White House, the visiting pastors noticed with joy the splendid physical condition of the president. Mr. Wilson looked the very picture of health that morning. In less than one year’s time, Mr. Wilson became a shadow of himself, a man broken in body and spirit. In the intervening period he visited Europe and saw the ghastly sight of the mad scramble for loot. Repudiated by the Congress of the United States, he dried early, never regaining his health after the paralitic stroke he received. What happened to him in Europe? Professor Eugene Horváth of Budapest University records the following data: “Masaryk was of the opinion. — and rightly so, many will, say — that the greatest success of his life was the conversion of President Wilson. He induced the President to abandon his Fourteen Points, and entangled him in the secret stipulations of the Russian Slav plans, thus i-augurating the Wilson tragedy.” 22) Masaryk himself explains the conversion of Mr. Wilson in the following words, written in his Memoirs in 1925: “Various publications, in dealing with Wilson’s reply to Austrian peace overtures, ask how it happened that he so soon abandoned his pronounced friendship for Austria. Whilst I was still in America, all sorts of legends were current concerning my relations to him. I will give the principal reasons for these: before the war I studied already his books on State and on the development of American Congress. I carefully read his speeches, and selected certain passages to support my arguments. In this manner I succeeded in inducing Wilson and Lansing to accept our programme step by step.” 23) We have no way of knowing the artful stratagems employed by the versatile Czeh professor in luring President Wilson into the trap prepared for him with meticulous care, but we know the grand design toward which he kept laboring: a Hungary mutilated beyond redemption, and the road to the West and to the Adriatic Sea laid wide open. Standing in Hungary’s Parliament, President Theodore Roosevelt uttered, on April 2, 1910, these historic words: “There is no more illustrious history than the history of the Magyar nation... The whole civilized world is indebted to Magyarland for its historical deeds.” President Roosevelt spoke the truth, because, using President Wilson’s words, Magyar history was the history of a gallant nation that stood steadfast as the easternmost defender of Europe’s Christianity for a thousand years. In peace and in war it valiantly upheld the very forces which formed the backbone of European civilization, performing thereby a service for which the world should never cease to render it full honor. Bearing the title “Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Commonweals Throughout the World” a book was printed in London in 1616. Devoting a whole chapter to Hungary, it says: “Hungary is a noble Kingdom. I call her noble, because volumes could be written about her only in portraying her worth, without enumerating her adversities. This Kingdom has done more toward reducing Ottoman ambitions, and frustrating Ottoman fortunes than the rest of all the Christian nations together.” The words of this book also spoke the truth, because the three centuries in which the Magyars poured out an endless stream of blood in Christendom’s defense against the might of the Turkish Empire, is a fact that will eternally stand out in the annals in mankind’s history. The Magyars fought so that the West may live and prosper. Suffering staggering losses, they stood their ground through those bloody three centuries, doing more in defending Christian faith “than the rest of all the Christian nations together.” 20 21 22 23 20) Ibid. p. 102. 21) Ibid. p. 99. 22) Eugene Horváth, Diplomatic History of the Treaty of Trianon, pp. 74, 75. 23) Ibid. p. 77.
