The Eighth Tribe, 1980 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-04-01 / 4. szám
The least the United States government could do, is to WITHHOLD PREFERRED NATION STATUS AND ANY OTHER AID UNTIL RUMANIA FULFILLS ITS OBLIGATIONS TOWARD THE MINORITIES, as outlined in the constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, the peace treaties and the Helsinki Agreement. If you see a murder being committed, and instead of helping the victim you aid the murderer: don’t you yourself become responsible for the crime? VOTE AGAINST THE RENEWAL OF THE PREFERRED NATION STATUS TO COMMUNIST RUMANIA! ☆ ☆ LOW INTEREST LOAN TO RUMANIA The National Inquirer reported on March 18: “While high interest rates are burning millions of Americans, U.S. bureaucrats are giving away millions each year in low interest loans to communist countries.” Among those countries receiving recently such low interest loans, the Euquirer lists Rumania with 2.5 million at 8 percent. The article quotes Congressman Richard Schulze, (R. Pa.), saying: “How can we give these Communists taxpayers’ money at 8 percent, while Americans can not afford to buy a home at 15 percent interest?” RUSSIA’S EXECUTIONER IN 1956 After the brutal squelching of the short-lived free Hungarian Republic in November 1956, Rumania eagerly joined Russia in “rounding up” freedomloving Hungarians by the thousands, and executing them. Prime minister Imre Nagy, head of the free Hungarian government of October 1956, as well as the young and heroic general Paul Maleter, leader of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, were both executed in Rumania, by Rumanians, without trial, in order to please their Russian masters. In return for this loyal and devoted service the Soviet Union agreed to pull out its troops from Rumania, since there was no need to police this most trustworthy member of the communist block any longer. From that time on Rumania enjoys “special privileges” in Moscow, including the privilege to “sass” its Kremlin masters for the benefit of the gullible West and serve as a spy while doing so. For the good of world-communism, of course. FACTS AND FIGURES The name Transylvania is the Latin translation of the original Hungarian name ERDÉLY, (formerly “Erdőelve”, as it was used in the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries A.D.), meaning “Land Beyond the Forest”. The word “Transylvania” appeared for the first time in the 17th century A.D., when the official language of Hungarian administration became the Latin. Formerly, the Romans called the same territory the “Province of Dacia”, after the previous inhabitants, the DACS, a Scythian nation, related to the Huns, Avars and Magyars (Hungarians) who were conquered and completely exterminated by the Roman legions, between 85 and 117 A.D. When the Romans, yielding to the pressure of the invadng GOTHS, withdrew from Dacia, they evacuated the land completely, and did not leave behind any population. The legend that the Rumanians of today are descendants of the Romans and the Dacs, has no foundation in history. After the Goths, the Huns, the Avars and the Bulgarians, the Magyars came, and established their homeland in 896 A.D., known as Hungary. The natural frontiers of Hungary were for more than one thousand years the high ridges of the Carpathian Mountains which form the Carpathian Basin. A single glance at the map shows clearly that geographically Transylvania is but a part of that basin. This very fact determined its role within the European community for more than one thousand years, economically, culturally and politically. As an integral part of the Hungarian Kingdom, Transylvania was drawn into the Western Christian Culture Circle at the very beginning of the eleventh century. The architecture of old Transylvanian cities, such as Nagyvárad, Kolozsvár, Brassó or Des bear witness to this fact. The first church in Nagyvárad was built in 978 A.D. Four years later, in 982, Byzantine traders reported several “rich Hungarian towns” in Transylvania. Due to close relations of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom with the West, talented Transylvanians found their ways to the early universities of Europe. The very first student whose name became officially registered at the University of Oxford in 1193, was a Miklós of Hungary, son of Kende, nobleman of Transylvania. The first “Free Collegium of the Noble Sciences” was established in Transylvania by Péter Paul Apáti, a famous Hungarian doctor from the faculty of the University of Bolognia, Italy, in 1462. Soon after other “Collegiums” of High Learning were established, of THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY HI
