Fraternity-Testvériség, 1957 (35. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1957-07-01 / 7. szám
2 FRATERNITY EDITORIAL AN OPENING ADDRESS Press Conference, Kossuth House, June 20, 1957 Gentlemen of the Press: We invited you to come this afternoon to the Kossuth House at a time when it seems to us nearly all diplomatic possibilities are exhausted in our desire to obtain the necessary and effective steps to help the silenced, tortured and completely enslaved people of Hungary. This house is dedicated to the living memory of Louis Kossuth, one of the greatest Champions of Liberty, who, during his memorable visit to the U.S.A. more than one hundred years ago, was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as the “Angel of Freedom”. Inviting you to this house, we want to emphasize, that the spirit of the Liberty-Loving Magyar People did not change in the last century. It is the same spirit which engulfed the young Hungarian Freedom Fighters lately in their struggle for their individual freedom and National Independence. In fact, there was not a single idea added to the program of the recent Hungarian Revolt which Louis Kossuth under similar circumstances had not taught to his Nation. We are very grateful that you came here, and greeting you in behalf of all the major Hungarian Societies of America, I •whole-heartedly say, “You are very welcome.” The reason for our inviting you can be found in a valuable sentence in one of Kossuth’s speeches: “Let them take everything from us, if free press is still left with us, I shall not despair of the liberty and happiness of my nation.” The Press in Hungary is now oppressed by the tyrannical power of the V. S. S. Itbut you, Gentlemen, are free ... as free as the press which you serve and represent here. Our hope is in you . . . that you will help us to publicize our Declaration and Appeal to the people of the free world as a desperate but obligatory move to enlighten them, that the very moment the Soviet interfered in Hungary, our struggle grew to a global height. The People of Hungary struggled no more for their own freedom and their own independence, but altogether for the free-
