The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-07-01 / 7. szám
NO. 8 — JULY, 1981 Published by the U.S. Branches of the Transylvanian World Federation and Affiliated Organizations. Editors-. A. Wass de Czege and István Zolcsák Assistant Editor: Mrs. Anne Fay Atzél Washington Representative: Mrs. Ilona Boissenin Editorial Office: American Hungarian Literary Guild Rt. 1, Box 59 — Astor, Florida 32002 TRANSYLVANIA is part of the Carpathian Basin, which is a compact geographical, economical and cultural unit, inhabited by Hungarians since 985 A.D. After World War L the Eastern part of Hungary, including Transylvania, the Banat, and part of the Great Hungarian Plain was given to Rumania, without, the consent of the native population. Thus the thousand-year-old Hungarian kingdom, and the long established economical, political and cultural unit of the Carpathian Basin was broken up, causing disruption, oppression, and economic hardship. The Hungarian population of Transylvania was thrown into minority status under foreign occupation, and was forced to endure extreme discrimination and injustice. During the last sixty years of Rumanian occupation more than one million Hungarians were killed, deported or forced under pressure to leave their homeland. Today, still close to three million strong, the native Hungarians of Transylvania are subjected to large-scale cultural genocide under the barbaric dictatorship of Ceausescu’s communist regime. WE APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: IN THE NAME OF GOD, SAVE THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIANS! HUNGARIAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE IN TRANSYLVANIA IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY AND TRADITION Under the influence of contemporary Rumanian propaganda, many Americans, otherwise keenly aware of minority problems and ardently vocal against political or cultural oppression, seem to regard the assault of the Rumanian government against the Hungarian schools in Transylvania as just an unimportant annoyance. The reason for this lies in the misunderstanding of the Transylvanian situation, which can in no way be brought in parallel with the educational principles and practices of the United States. Since the very beginning of its existence, the language of the United States was, and is English, Immigrants, who entered the country, had to learn the language in order to survive. It was the language of the federal and state institutions; the language of cultural institutions; the language of the business enterprises and job-opportunities. In other words: the United States of America was, and is, a one language country, with the freedom granted to all immigrants to cultivate their own tongue if they so In Transylvania, since the eleventh century A.D., the language of the people who moved into the empty land, and established themselves there, was the MA- desired, through their own church-related institutions. The Transylvanian Quarterly Dedicated to the oppressed peoples of Transylvania, to their right to self-determination, self-administration, and the free development of their cultural heritage.
