The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-04-01 / 4. szám
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. NO. 7 — APRIL, 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 I, 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! TERMINATE AID TO RUMANIA! Do Not Renew Preferred Nation Status To Ceausescu s Terror Regime! REASONS: 1. It has been documented again and again in the U. S. House of Representatives, in the United Nations, during the conferences of Belgrade and Madrid that Rumania is today the most terroristic police state on the face of the Earth, where the number of atrocities (including murder) committed against national and religious minorities increases year after year. 2. During the hostage crisis Rumania supported the revolutionary regime of Iran by transporting Iranian oil through Russia in order to circumvent the American boycott. 3. Rumania furnished proof again of her solidarity with the Soviet Union by aiding Russian espionage against the United States through the Rumanian embassy in Washington. 4. It is not fair to the American taxpayer, and is harmful to the economy of the United States to aid the most oppressive regime on Earth!
