The Hungarian Student, 1958 (3. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1958-10-01 / 1. szám

rösi Csorna Tibetan Relief Fund» and ensure close collaboration between the two relief movements.

4.1 assured the President of the Central Indian Relief Committee that the Hungarians scattered throughout the world - also on behalf of the oppressed Hungarians at home - would do all in their power to persuade the free nations to show these latest victims of Communism the same love and generosity they showed us after our own revolution was quashed.

President Kripalini thanked the Hungarians for their readiness to help and expressed his conviction that this relief programme signified valid support for the cause of Hungarian freedom.

I should now like to inform you briefly that according to official reports more than 12 000 Tibetan refugees have already crossed the frontier at Tezpur, Sikkim and Bhutan. These refugees arrived in India in a far poorer and more miserable state than was ours when we reached the free world. Their route, which they covered almost entirely on foot, was longer, more difficult and more dangerous, and the steep tracks were absolutely inadequate for the passage of thousands of human beings. The stream of refugees keeps on swelling. More and more people claim asylum and set the relief organizations a tough problem. The refugees bring practically nothing with them except what they stand up in. Owing to the trials they have endured their health defies all description. Among them are many women, children and infants who are in urgent need of treatment.

The first problem to be tackled is to provide lodging, food, clothes, and medical supplies. Definite settlement is one of the Indian Government’s greatest worries because the question of the Hindu refugees from Pakistan has not yet been solved. India cannot tackle all these problems by herself; the free world must lend a hand. The Indians were amazed to see that the first people to come to her assistance were the Hungarian refugees. But that was only natural, for we who have endured the same trials can most readily sympathize with the Tibetan refugees!

In free Asia the opinion is steadily spreading that the crime committee by the Chinese Communists against the freedom of the Tibetan nation is opening the eyes of the other nations to the fact that the red danger is more to be feared than colonialism used to be.

In Calcutta 1 had an opportunity to visit the Asiatic Society of Bengal where Sándor Körösi Csorna used to work. Mr. Sibidar Chaudhuri, who occupies the post at present, knew all about his predeces-