Verhovayak Lapja, 1945 (28. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1945 / Verhovay Journal
Page 2 Truths Versus Half-Truths (Beware of false prophets from Central Europe who pervert facts to their own secret ends Í By STEPHEN HUZIANYI From the Danubian Basin a secret weapon is being ; launched against Americans that may decide the war long ' after the weapons have been silenced and armies have ceased to deploy. This secret but by no means new device is PROPAGANDA and may well destroy again, as in 1919, the structure of peace in Central Europe by an arbitrary reshuffling of boundaries based on lies and falsification of history. The sly agents who direct Central European propa- 1 ganda against us are here in our midst. They wear the j. disguise and protective coloring of allies and friends of the United States but machinate against the long-term welfare : , of Americans and the world at large. They spread propa: ganda for a new and powerful world state, a Slav empire, ; in a cunning and innocent manner by filling columns and i pages of ostensibly disinterested and respectable magazines and periodicals with seemingly ‘'impartial” and “analytical” 1 essays and articles. I will use excerpts from these articles to show samples of the lies and distortions of the truth with which we are being bombarded. We hope that Americans will learn to recognize these hifalutin and documented i “analyses,” “editorials,” “criticisms,” etc., no matter in which ! high-sounding magazine or periodical they find them, as just so much sophisticated baloney and plain hooey. m POINT 4 (Part 3) Installment X “Magyar nationalism... was a more powerful impulse than the liberal achievements linked with it.” —(Rustem Vambery) KOSSUTH IN THE UNITED STATES A very important speech by Kossuth is one that he gave to the’ Press in New York in December, 1851. Kossuth spoke on the riatiohality question. A banquet was given in his honor and Bryant the poet presided. Enthusiastic demonstrations were made in favor of Kossuth and Hungary and freedom. Here follows part of Krfe'.ith’s historical speech: “...inasmuch as the basis of all the calumnies lies in general ignorance concerning the relation of the Magyars to other races Hungary, permit me to speak on the question of nationalities, a false theory which plays so mischievous a part in the destinies Of Europe. No word has been more misrepresented than the word NATIONALITY, which has become in the hands of absolutism a .(dangerous instrument against liberty. ■' “Let me ask you, gentlemeln: Are you, the people of the United States, a nation, or not? Have you a national government, or not? You answer: Yes. And yet you are not all of one blood, «jar Of one language. Millions of you speak English, others speak French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, and even several Indian dialects: yet you are a nation. Neither your central government, «tat those Of separate states, nor your municipalities, legislate or ddininister in every language spoken among you; yet you have af national government. I (You can’t demand for a Railway ticket in Slovak, See IfeteUment II.) . “Now suppose, many of you were struck with the curse Of Babel, and exclaimed: This union is an oppression! Our laws, our institutions, our state and city governments are an oppression! -{What is union to us? What are rights? To what avail laws? What is freedom? What is geography? What is community of interests Í0 us: They all are nothing; language is everything. Let us divide (the Union, divide the states, divide the very cities, divide the Whole territory, according to languages. Let the people of every language become a separate state: for every nation has a right to «rational life, and to Us the language, and nothing else, is the fcätiohality. Unless the state is founded upon language, its organization is tyranny. “What then would become of your great Union? ... What would Betörné if this grand, mighty complex of your republic, should her fetegrity ever be rent by the fanatics of language? Where now she Walks, among the rising temples of liberty and happiness, she soon (would tread upon ruins, and mourn over human hopes. But happy art thjou, free nation of America, founded on the only solid basis i—Ubefty! ... Tyrants are not in the midst of you to throw the qpple of discord and raise hatred in this national family—hatred of faces, the curse Of humalnity, that venomous ally of despotism. «Glorious it is to see the oppressed of diverse countries:—diverse in language, history, habits—wandering to these shores and becoming members of this great nation, regenerated by thp principle of common liberty. íj “If language alone makes a nation, then there is no great tyatioh On earth, for there is no country whose population is obira! ed by millions, but speaks more than one language. No, it IS hot language only. Community of interests, of rights, of duties, cfl histbty, but chiefly community of institutions, by which a population, varying perhaps in tongue and race, is bound together, dnfough daily intercourse in the towns, which are the centres and Borne, of commerce and industry. Besides these, the very mountain yanges, the systems of rivers and streams, the soil, the dust of Ittfnieh is mingled with the mortal remains of those ancestors who riled on the same field, for the same interests, the common inheritance of glory and woe, the community of laws and institutions, ttoinmon freedom or common oppression—all these enter into the Scornf^lx idea of nationality... Verhovay Journal “Every Frenchman becomes furious when his Alsace is claimed to Germany by the right of language—or the borders of his Pyrenees to Spain—but there are some amongst the very men who feel revolted at this idea... would claim from Hungary to divide its territory, which God has limited by its range of mountains and the systems of streams, as also by áll the links of a community of more than a thousand years; to cut off our right hand, Transylvania, and to give it up to the neighboring Wallachia (now part of Rumania); to cut out like Shylock one pound of our very breast —the Banat, and the rich country between the Danube and Tisza rivers; to augment by it Turkish Serbia and so forth. It is the new ambition of conquest, but an easy conquest, not by arms, but by language. “And do you know, gentlemen, whence this absurd theory sprang up on the European continent? It was the idea of Panslavism—that is, the idea that the mighty stock of Slav races is called to rule the world, as once the Roman did. It was a Russian plot; it was a dark design to make out national feelings a tool to Rüssiam preponderance over the world. “Perhaps you are not aware of the historical origin of this plot. It was after that most immoral act of tyranny, the third division of Poland (1795), that the chance of fate brought the Polish Prince Czartoriski to the Court of Catherine of Russia. He subsequently became minister of Alexander the Czar. It was in this quality that, with the noble aim to benefit his fallen fatherland, he claimed from the young Czar the restoration of Poland, suggesting as an equivalent the idea of Russian preponderance over all nations of the old Slavonic race...” And here is an abstract of a speech made by the Hon. Charles Andrews of Maine, irt the House of Representatives of the United States, on February 25, 1852, in which he condemned the unwarrantable intervention of Russia in- the affairs of Hungary, and asked the influence of U. S .against all similar interventions in the future, sa-ying further: “Governor Kossuth, independent of being invited to this country, occupies the same honorable position here as Dr. Franklin occupied in France in the perilous times of our own revolutionary struggle, only that his case is a much plainer one. He solicits this nation to join Great Britain tö intervention in behalf of his country, and at the same time is preparing for war, if it must come, by gathering the material. His mission is am honorable one, and he is worthy of his mission. “Paid editors may traduce him through their mercenary journals, and such politicians as they choose can aid in the work; but they cannot make him otherwise than the wonderful man of the times, and apparently destined for the mighty mission he is so rapidly accomplishing .. . “He seems to possess the purity of a Washington, the sagacity of a Jefferson, and more than Websterian combination and logic; while his eloquence is purely his own—calm, gentle, enticing, commanding... Louis Kossuth is destined to occupy the choicest niche in the temple of fame, for this age of the world. “The history of the bloody and treacherous onslaught upon devoted Hungary, the unwarrantable interference of despotic Russia, the horrid cruelties perpetrated upon Hungarian men, women and children, the treachery of a Görgey, the fearful brutalities of 'the butcher’ Haynau, are all too fresh in the memories of this House and the.American people to need one word of comment. “Up to this time Hungary was one of the Important nations of Europe. For more than eight hundred years her people had occupied the same territory; had maintained her nationality; had progressed in all the useful arts and sciences; had diffused throughout the kingdom an almost universal elementary education, and had kept alive, as a ‘holy firé’, that germ of liberty that animated the breasts of their fathers far away upon the plains of Asia, at the birth of their nation. “Sir, the intervention of Russia in the affairs of Hungary was an open, palpable, flagrant and wanton, violation of the well-settled law of nations. It was an interference which struck the whole civilized world with surprise and horror, and which awakened in patriotic minds everywhere a suspicion of her intention to break down, liberal principles, in whatever form and wherever t]»ey might appear. It awakened án almost universal feeling that such oppression should be repelled—that aid to Hungary should be afforded in that way which time might develop as the most prudent and effective. “I arraign Russia as a violator of the laws of nature, of nations, of mankind—the oldest, the highest, and most sacred laws of Christendom. I charge her with being a nation of murderers; for, in violation of- this law, she marched her armies upon the territory of a nation (Hungary) with whom she was at peace, interfered with her affairs, and ruthlessly slew her citizens by thousands, and made desolate the land,” Installment XI in next issue.-------------------V------------------VERHOVAY PHYSICIAN HONORED DR. J. LOOMIS CHRISTIAN, 128 Locust St., Harrisburg, Pa., local medical examiner for the Verhovay for many years and a member of our Association, a practitioner in internal medicine, has been selected to appear in '“Who’s Who in Medicine For 1944,” a publication honoring physicians in United States. Although Dr. Christian specializes in internal medicine, he has delivered 1000 babies in his 18 years of practice. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School bf Medicine, and later was chief resident physician at the Harrisburg Hospital. For 15 years he has been active in Boy Scout work and has been on the medical committee of the Boy Scouts in both Paxtang and Harrisburg. His father, Dr. J. Loomis Christian, is in his fiftyfifth year as a general practitioner in Paxtang. Congratulations, Doc’! We are certainly proud of having you as a member of the Verhovay! February 14, 1945 AMERICAN HUNGARIAN WOMEN DO IT AGAIN Mrs. Stephen Mazura, Chairman of the Women’s Activities and War Bond Booths of the American Hungarian War Bond Committee of Western Pennsylvania, reports that the Committee has just successfully completed a campaign for a 5 car ambulance train. The Committee’s report of $600,000 in War Bond Sales —• which is double their original quota and, thereby, entitles the Committee to credit for a 10 car Hospital train — was officially accepted by Mrs. Francis P. Tarnapowicz, Associate State Administrator, U, 6. ((Treasury Department, and Chairman of the Nationality Groups Division, at 317 Oliver Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Tarnapowicz congratulated the Committee and all of its patriotic volunteer workers and leaders on their splendid accomplishment and announced that a citation from the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army will be awarded the Committee in the near future, in recognition of this splendid achievement. 92 volunteer workers participated in the campaign and of this marvelous group 48 were awarded Blue Star Brigade Pins by the War Finance Committee for having sold more than 12 bonds each. The Verhovay and the American Hungarian Reforihed Federation has helped the Committee by purchasing $100,000 worth of War Bonds each, while the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Association of East Pittsburgh purchased $10,000 in Bonds. The Committee’s grand total since its inception in May, 1943 is approximately $5,000,000 in War Bond Sales. Previously the Committee successfully completed campaigns for a Liberty Ship and two ambulance planes. The American Hungarian Women of Western Pennsylvania indeed have made themselves an excellent record!----------------v---------------Governor Martin Appoints Fraternalist Deputy Insurance Commissioner Gloomy prophets proclaiming the decline of Fraternalism have received another rebuke when Governor Martin of Pennsylvania appointed Oscar Kottier, M. E. Recorder of the Artisans Order of Mutual Protection, Deputy Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania. The “Artisans Order”, a fraternal association founded in 1873, thirteen years before the Verhovay, has a membership of 30,000 and 30 million dollars of insurance in force. Governor Martin, by appointing the Most Excellent Recorder Oscar Kottler Deputy Insurance Commissioner, gave recognition not only to the exceptional abilities and outstanding qualities of Mr. Kottler but also to the importance of fraternalism in general. The appointment of a fraternal leader to this important position (Continued on Page 3)
