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

1960-11-01 / 11. szám

F RATERN ITY

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Volume XXXVIII NOVEMBER 1960 Number 11

THE STORY OUR CHRISTMAS SEAL TELLS

Engineer-genius of his time, Architect Mansard built Trianon palace outside Paris for the lovely ladies of the court of the ‘‘Sun-King’'. Louis XIV. One of the foreign guests royally received there was a revolutionary patriot from Hungary, Francis Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania. Having sacrificed his tremendous wealth for the cause of freedom, he at first sought France’s aid, but when that was not forthcoming, he chose seclusion and exile in far-away Asia Minor instead of the glittering ease of Versailles, then the intellectual hub of the world.

Two hundred years later, in 1920. Trianon palace was the site for the signing of the “peace” treaty that was literally forced upon Hungary, though she had done all that was possible not to be drawn into World War I. Making a mockery out of President Wilson’s famed 14 Points, a 1,000-year-old historic as well as economic and geographic unit was shattered to appease short-sighted political ambitions. With the principle of self-determination rudely disregarded, over three million Magyars were torn from the mother country and placed under the administrative whims of unfriendly governments. Two-thirds of Hungary’s territory and most of her natural resources were wantonly scattered to any and all comers without restraint. Whatever hardships and gross injustices were thus created in the strategically important Danube Valley, they are dwarfed by the consequences of the Treaty of Trianon. The Allies, prompted 40 years ago by Russian-inspired Pan-Slavism, virtually obliterated their own first line of defense against Soviet imperialism. They not only undermined the age-old common spirit of self-defense throughout Eastern Europe, but they brought the Iron Curtain, always evident on the borders of Russian- occupied territories, to the very doorstep of the Atlantic community of

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