The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1982-10-01 / 10. szám

very quiet about the Jewish Question’, there éxists in Rumania a definite ceiling to any Jewish advancement in the civil service as well as in the academic and cultural fields.

The previously francophile, later German-Nazi oriented, then Stalinist-Communist oriented Rumania Professor Haraszti concludes in his book “is today still one of the most chauvinistic, most anti-semetic country in the world.”

American Companies in Support of Oppression

It seems that the terror-regime of Ceausescu is being supported by the following American companies :

1. UOP INC. “a multinational corporation engaged in energy technologies, construction and engineering Services and manufacture of products on a worldwide basis” according to the corporation’s vice president Mr. H. K. Baboyian. Average yearly trade with Rumania: 1.4 billion.

2. Island Creek Corporation.

3. NACA — National Agricultural Chemicals Association. Chairman: N. Reding.

4. Atlanta Corporation. Imports food products from Rumania. Average yearly trade: 29 million. Chairman: George G. Gellert.

5. Chilewich Corporation. Yearly business with Rumania 29 million.

6. Control Data Corporation.

7. National Foreign Trade Council, president Richard W. Roberts. Average yearly trade with Rumania 722 million.

It is easy to understand that the cheap slavelabor offered by a totalitarian regime can be tempting to any profit making enterprise even if the offer comes from a government openly embarked in the destruction of the free enterprize system. However, the least these corporations could do in order to prove some good intentions on their part would be to use their influence for the benefit of those oppressed.

Till now there is no sign of any effort in this direction. On the contrary: these companies are trying their best year after year to perpetuate the Ceausescu-regime to the detriment of millions of oppressed minorities, who provide in their misery the cheapest possible labor.

Congressman Gus Yarton in behalf of the oppressed Hungarians

97th CONGRESS, 2nd Session, H Res. 397 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 16, 1982

The Honorable Congressman GUS YARTON of

Pennsylvania submitted the following resolution,

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign

Affairs

RESOLUTION

Concerning observance by the Government of

Rumania of the human rights of the Hungarians in Transylvania, especially the right of self-determination.

Whereas the Government of Rumania has entered into treaties and accords, including the 1947 Paris Treaty of Peace, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the 1975 Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which guarantee the human rights of its citizens without any discrimination as to religion and national origin;

Whereas the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania also ensures far-reaching rights to the “co-inhabiting nationalities” in Rumania;

Whereas the province of Transylvania, which has two million five hundred thousand Hungarians and which constituted part of Hungary for a millennium, was originally ceded to Rumania by the 1920 Trianon Treaty;

W hereas the fate of the Hungarians in Transylvania has been systematic dennationalization under the various Rumanian governments, whether Royalist, Fascist, or Communist;

Whereas the Government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania and its regional and local authorities pursue a policy of denationalization toward the Hungarians and people of other nationalities in Transylvania by measures approximating ETHNOCIDE, including 1st: the destruction of Hungarian language schools and the Hungarian Bolyai University — still in existence in 1958 — and the replacement of

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