The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-07-01 / 7. szám
EDITORS THREATENED Threatening messages from Rumania have been received recently by Mr. István Zolcsák, Sao Paulo, Brazil, co-editor of the Transylvanian Quarterly. Transylvanian Hungarians who have applied for passports to visit relatives in Brazil, were called to the office of the SECURITATE, (political police) and ordered to contact Mr. Zolcsák in Sao Paulo and tell him that IF HE DOES NOT CEASE HIS ACTIVITIES AGAINST THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT of RUMANIA — HE WILL BE EXTERMINATED! In a letter to Mr. Ilie Verdet, prime minister of the Rumanian communist state, Mr. Zolcsák replied to these messages and pointed out the obvious solutions to all the ethnic problems in Rumania: — the strict adherence to the provisions laid down in the peace treaties, the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final Act and the very constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. Copies of his letter were sent to all the member nations of the U. N., as well as to the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations. In the next issue of the Transylvanian Quarterly we shall bring the entire text of that letter in English translation. Since the other editor of the Quarterly, author, publisher and retired university professor, Albert Wass de Czege, has been exposed to similar threats in the past and is being constantly threatened with trumped up charges by Rumanian agents of being a “war criminal*’, it seems necessary to comment on this highly unorthodox and unusual attitude of the Ceausescu government toward the Transylvanian World Federation and its efforts in behalf of the native Hungarian population in Transylvania, today a province of the Socalist Republic of Rumania. We are publishing the truth concerning the situation in Transylvania, the culture and history of the Hungarian nation in Transylvania and point out in detail the present-day practices of the Rumanian communist government falsifying history, using terroristic measures to eradicate the manycentury-old Hungarian culture of this part of the ancient Hungarian homeland and annihilate the three million Hungarians who constitute the native population of that land. If the Rumanian government, with all the unlimited financial resources at its disposal, is able to prove, not with terror but with proper and acceptable scholastic documentation, that we are wrong: they are indeed welcome to do so. The very fact, however, that they have chosen the tactics of dictators, intimidation and the threats of murder — the very same tactics they use on their own subjects — proves that they themselves recognize the obvious weaknesses of their alleged “facts” and seek remedy in brute force. The Transylvanian World Federation is always willing to participate in any open dialogue with the representatives of the Rumanian government, provided that such dialogue takes place in a free country and under the strict rules of academic freedom and scholastic integrity. VIII THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
