Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1960-06-01 / 6. szám

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA Editor-in-Chief: George E. K. Borshy. — Managing Editor:

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Volume XXXVIII JUNE 1960 Number 6

GEORGE E. K. BORSHY:

A FEARFUL LIFE

1920—1960

A sad anniversary — already the fortieth — arrived on the fourth day of June of God's Nineteen Hundred and Sixtieth year. Most of the world, which in the last decade has been

searching feverishly for a remedy for its thousands of ailments, does not pay much attention to this date, although, if it were able to see at all clearly with its fogged vision, it should at

last discover in this day one of the most infectious causes of

its diseases.

It is customary to count the first great catastrophe in the history of the twentieth century from the firing of the pistol

of Sarajevo. What a mistake! The bullets of a fanatical Serb named Princip, which sent the Austro-Hungarian crown prince and his wife to their deaths, would have been forgotten soon enough had not the victorious statesmen of the resulting First World War been guided at the signing of the peace treaties by blinding hate and by the deceitful machinations of the political scoundrels who always fish in muddy waters. For that is what happened. It happened particularly in the case of Hungary on June 4, 1920, at Trianon at the so-called peace negotiations, which do not deserve that name in the least. There a nation which had been forcibly involved in the war and had bled almost to death was forced to accept such conditions that every nerve in the bodies of her sons screamed in protest. The mutilated