The Eighth Tribe, 1980 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-11-01 / 11. szám
November, 1980 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 5 When Ire suggested that the United States create a Scientific Advisory Board, the government not only did so immediately, but appointed him director. He was often referred to as “The Patron Saint of the U.S. Air Force”. In the early part of May 1963 on a visit to friends in Aachen, Germany the 81-year-old genius suffered a heart attack and died in tlie arms of an old friend, Dr. Franz Wattendorf, who accompanied his body hack to Pasadena, California. His death on May 7, 1963 shook American scientific circles and was covered nationwide in many newspapers and weekly magazines. Flowers arrived at his Pasadena villa from the California Institute of Technology; Air Force Association; Aerojet-General Co.; University of Southern California; International Astronautical Federation, England; Academy of Sciences, Italy; American- Hungarian Studies Foundation of Rutgers University; Agard-NATO; Association of Hungarian University Students; California Hungarian Theatre of the Air; Bundesrepublik (West German Government ( and West German consulate in Washington, D.C. and innumerable others. The list of eminent scientists, military personnel, friends and acquaintances who attended his funeral is just too long to print in a little article like this. At the funeral services Father Arnold Biederman, pastor of the St. Stephen of Hungary R.C. Church, Los Angeles, read the telegram from President Kennedy: It was with a note of sorrow that I learned of Dr. Kármán’s death, to whom I had presented the National Medal of Science very recently. Dr. Kármán is known as the ‘Father of Aerodynamics’. I know that his associates and friends mourn his passing and join me now' in offering respect to such a great intellectual and humanist. At the Kármán mausoleum in the Hollywood Memorial Park. Rabbi Imre Glancz performed the religious ceremonies. He was laid beside his mother and younger sister. The whole world honored him. He was a member of the Papal Scientific Academy, an honorary Commanding Officer in the French Army, was decorated by West Germany, Israel and Spain. From Italy he received the “AI Merito Della Republica' medal. Altogether he received twenty doctorates from Universities in all parts of the world. He died just four days before his 82nd birthdav. HUNGARIAN VARIETIES RADIO PROGRAM Sundays Noon till 1:30 P.M. WDUQ FM Mostly M usir as well as Interviews. Reports. News with a Hungarian Touch. News of the Homeland. Calendar of Coming Events. Musical greetings.- Host: Dr. Victor Molnár Andrew Haraszti: Some Significant Points of Hungarian History The people of this East-Central European area are called the MAGYARS. They belong to the socalled “Ural-Altaic”, or “Turanian” linguistic stock and are thus related to the Finns, Estonians, Turks, Mongals and Tungusians. They entered Central- Europe in the late 9th century, re-occupying the Carpathian Basin as inheritors of Attila, the great Hun king, and of Bajan, “khagan” of the Avar Empire. According to some new sources, the “late Avars” were already Magyars in the racial and cultural sense of this word (A.D. 670). Árpád, the leading chieftain of the Magyar tribal-organization (890-907), layed the foundation of Hungary as one of the first truly national states of Europe. From that time, the Hungarians became typical Europeans, proud of their unique European culture and of the fact that they became the continuous defenders of European civilization against the storming waves of Asia. King Stephen (István) the Saint, the great ruler of the Árpád dynasty (997-1038), was the very first king who was canonized by the Roman Church. In the Admonitions he addressed to his son, St. Emery (Imre I, St. Stephen recorded moral and ethical laws which remained as directives for the governance of the country for centuries. One of his most famous statements was: “the country with only one kind of heritage, virtue and custom is weak and powerless!” Government and law reflected a special, “patriarchal” type of feudalism in Hungary, which became one of the most powerful political states of Medieval Europe. The “Holy Crown” was constructed from crowns sent by the Roman Church and by the Emperor of Byzantium. This crown, even today, represents more than simply the mean of “coronation.” It represents the respected symbol of the constitutional central power. The Hungarian Golden Bull 11222), only seven years after the Magna Charta, assumed great significance since it was not only a basis for the nobility against the king (as in England), but also a basis for greater personal and constitutional freedom. As one of the important borderlands of Western Civilization. Hungary became a Carpathian fortress between East and West. Resistance against the Mongol aggressors (1241) and against the Ottoman Turks I 14th-17th century) proved that the Hungarians had become true Christian-Europeans. who were ready to sacrifice themselves defending the european culture
