The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-01-01 / 1. szám
(Tirgu-Mures) soon acquired the reputation of favoring Rumanian aspirants by giving them easy entrance examinations. The result of all those trickeries just stated was that by this time up to 70% of the students at that School of Medicine originally meant to be the Hungarian section of the former Ferenc József University of Kolozsvár were of Rumanian nationality. The basic principle of “rumanization” in cases such as the Faculty of Medicine at Marosvasarhely is that the figurehead at the top, in this case the dean, must be a Hungarian (Professor Janos László at the time of this writing), while his assistant is also the Party Secretary as well as Rumanian. At present the Assistant Dean is Emilian Bancu whose brother-in-law Dórin Niculescu holds the chair of urology. The chair of internal medicine, founded by the Hungarian professor of international fame, Professor Miskolczy, has been inherited by the Rumanian Octavian Popovici. Radiology, which has been most successfully run for 35 years by Professor Krebs, who is due to retire this year, has already been handed over to Dumitru Stanciu, and so on it goes. . . . This is the way the Hungarian past, present and future is being eradicated from the once famous Hungarian Medical Faculty of Kolozsvár and thereafter Marosvasarhely. — Victor de Stankovich LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSYLVANIA! Read the books released by the Danubian Research Center Transylvania and the Hungarian-Rumanian Problem, a symposium, 330 pp. maps, statistics, bibliography, cloth ..............................................................$18.00 Haraszti, Andrew: The Ethnic History of Transylvania ..........................................................$10.00 Haraszti: Origin of the Rumanians..............................$ 5.00 Nanay, Julia: Transylvania, the Hungarian Minority in Rumania..................................................$ 5.00 Zathureczky: Transylvania, Citadel of the West .........$ 4.00 THE DANUBIAN PRESS Rt. 1, Box 59 Astor, Florida 32002 The Transylvania Quarterly is a supplement to the Eighth Tribe bi-lingual monthly magazine. Subscription is $10.00 per year — $12.00 outside U.S.A. payable in U.S. funds. Eighth Tribe, P.O. Box 637, Ligonier, Pa. 15658. NEW ASSAULT AGAINST THE RELICS OF THE HUNGARIAN PAST During the months of July and August 1981 the Rumanian Communist government sent several “pioneer units” recruited from among high school and college students into the purely Hungarian regions of Transylvania, known as the Szekelyland, to seek out the old mountain-cemeteries and burn every “kopjafa” they can find. The “kopjafa” meaning javelin-shaft was in the olden days the grave marker of brave men. They were handcarved and hand-painted in special and individual ways, telling the family-line and the deeds accomplished by the dead, very similar to the Indian totem-poles. FACTS AND FIGURES (Reprinted from the book “Documented Facts and Figures In 1920, on June 4, the Hungarian Government was compelled to sign the TREATY of TRIANON, by which the thousand year old Hungary was shorn of almost three-fourths of its territory, and two-thirds of its inhabitants. However, on the insistence of the Allied Powers article 47 was included in the treaty, stipulating that Rumania pledges itself to protect the interest of those citizens who differ from the majority of the population in respect of race, language or religion. However, by then more than 150,000 Hungarians mostly civil servants and teachers, were expelled from their native country and the “forced Rumanization of Transylvania began.” (See: E. Osterhaven “Transylvania. . .” page 19). As a result of the Trianon Dictum from the 20,886,487 population of Hungary, 13,271,370 were placed under the domination of other countries. Hugh Seton-Watson writes in Eastern Europe Between the Wars (Archon Books, 1962) on page 300-301: “The Hungarians became second class citizens in Transylvania. .. Rumanian officials from across the mountains flooded the province. . .” In 1923 the Rumanian government executed a special land reform in Transylvania only aimed against the Hungarians. A total of 2,718,146 acres of land was taken from Hungarians, mostly small landowners, and handed over to the Rumanian population and the Rumanian churches. (According to Rumanian statistics, prior to this land VII THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
