Új Magyar Út, 1954 (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1954-05-01 / 5-6. szám
CONTENTS always took the Western side: she accepted the Western form of Christianity and resisted the Eastern imperialism, fighting it in alliance with the West, and so on. It is characteristic that instead of the Lutheran trends it was the Calvinistic Reformation which took a deep root in Hungary. Mr. Kibédi Varga asserts that this fact indicates the logical and rational character of the Hungarian people which chose between Catholocism and Calvinism, both representing logical and rational elements. On both fronts of its religious education the Hungarian aligned on the side of the Latin, instead of German culture. Roman Catholicism influences the Hungarians not only through its religious ideas. Its state organizing ability and law system are of much greater importance. The Calvinist way of life, as demonstrated in Geneva, gave an equally important impulse to the Hungarian who was seeking for an answer to his dogmatic and social problems. PROFESSOR JÓZSEF REMÉNYI is teaching comparative literature at the Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio. In his present essay he introduces two Estonian poets, Gustav Suits and Bernard Kangro, both living in exile. Mr. Suits was a college professor, famed poet, translator, editor, and the leading figure of an important cultural trend in free Estonia. Mr. Kangro represents the younger generation. But both of them bring a new voice: the voice of man returning from peril to new life. BÉLA KARDOS of Washington, D. C., meditates on the true meaning of life, and the true peace. “The Black And The White Angel” points to the valuable roots of a new Hungarian “Weltanschauung” being developed in the American atmosphere. LÁSZLÓ MÉRLAKY of Washington, D. C., a staff member of this paper, reviews the recently published book of former Prime Minister Nicholas Kállay. The “Hungarian Premier” was published by the Columbia University Press. The book narrates the events of Hungarian history from March 10, 1942, when the Kállay government took office, to March 19, 1944, the day of the German occupation and end of the Kállay administration. Kállay emphasizes that the sole aim of his policy was the defense of Hungarian' independence against both the Germans and Russians. Therefore he resisted the German demands as much as he could. He gave important assistance to the refugees of subjugated Poland, the prisoners of war of the Western allies who escaped from German camps, and to the Europe-wide persecuted Jews. His chief goal was to pull the Hungarian army out of the Russian campaign, and to concentrate the Hungarian forces on the defense of the Hungarian soil until the Western powers reach the Hungarian border. Kállay’s attitude became the basic principle of Hungarian politics during the war. His book contains much new information, and it is hoped that its influence will be felt in the Western press also. For it was the Western press which, on the basis of false information or malicious influences, formed an entirely wrong judgement on Hungary’s role in the war. DR. IVÁN LAJOS was a politician of extraordinary distinction before and during the second World War. At the time of the greatest — 247 —
