Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1955. január-június (4. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1955-01-06 / 1. szám

January 6, 1955

AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ

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ABOUT THE

Review Of The Month

With this issue of the Review of the Month — a monthly supplement to the. Magyar Szó — we resume our efforts to contanct the second generation members of our readers’ families and bring them interesting news about their fathers’ native land and such other reading matter which, we think, they could not easily find in most other available sources.

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MASTERPIECES OF HUNGARIAN PORCELAIN MAKING

ALMANAC

FOR HUNGARIAN-AMERIGANS

JANUARY L

1823.—Birth of Alexander Petőfi, Hungary’s greatest

poet.

1831.—William Lloyd Garrison began publication in Boston of The Liberator, one of the most powerful Abolition

organs. In its first issue, Garrison wrote: “I will be as harsh as

truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse and I will be heard.”

—I will not retreat a single inch— 1863.—The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, declaring all slaves in areas still in rebellion against the United States to be “henceforward and forever ALEXANDER PETŐFI free.”

JANUARY 2

1752.—Birthday of Philip Freneau, poet of the American revolution, writer and editor in the Jeffersonian cause.

“How can we call those systems just Which bid the few, the proud, the first,

Posses all earthly good!”—Freneau.

JANUARY 4

1849.—Genera] Klapka launches victorious offensive against the Austrian imperial forces under General Schlick in Upper-Hungary. Many years later President Lincoln was advised to name Klapka chief of the union forces in the American civil war.

JANUARY 10

1776.—Tom Paine’s “Common Sense,” a pamphlet urging independence of the American colonies, was published in Philadelphia, enormously influenced sentiment for inde- pendece among the masses of people.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again. The birthday of a new world is at hand.”—From “Common Sense.”

JANUARY 11

1944.—President Roosevelt in a message to Congress outlined an economic bill of rights. He included: The right to a useful and remunerative job; the right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; the right of every farmer to a decent living; the right to adequate medical care; the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment ; the right to a good education.

JANUARY 17

1706.—Birthday of Benjamin Franklin, American writer, Printer, statesman, inventor, scientist, diplomat, revolutionist.

“God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a more thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may pervade all the nations ot the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere, on its surface and says: This is my country.”—Benjamin Franklin.

JANUARY 20

Hungary signed by the United

JANUARY 27

1919.—Death of the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century: Endre Ady.

JANUARY 29

1900.—Baseball's American

League organized at Philadelphia, including Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis.

JANUARY 30

1882.—Birthday. of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. .

States, Soviet Union ami Great ENDRE ADY ’ Britain.

TIMELY & TERRIFIC

Genuine freedom cannot be achieved by a mere political grant or by a military victory. Freedom comes only as adequate political, economic, social and educational foundations can be prepared. Men can be as effectively manacled by economic and social forms of servitude as by political oppression.

The Christian answer to the problem of colonialism and I alien rule must be based upon recognition of the inherent right of every people to freedom and thus to eventual inde-*

I pendence of selfgovernment.

Francis B. Sayre, former Assistant Sec. of State

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During 1954, we had peace with unemployment. During 1955, we must have peace with full employment. We can have full employment, with full production and economic stability, by wise use of our resources and by governmental policies based on recognition that puchasing power in the hands of th eAmerican public is a prime requisite for the continued expansion of the national economy.

Unemployment in 1954 cost this nation an estimated ! .$30 billion. We can certainly afford at least an equal sum for the great projects which our country requires—adequate school facilities for every child, a vast housing program, new highways across the face of America, improved health programs, and orderly, imaginative development of our natural resources.

Walter Reut her ;

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There is something incongruous if not preposterous in a nation numbering one-fifth of the population of the world being represented in the world organization by an evicted rump taking shelter behind American warships on an island off the continent inhabited by that nation. There might be some ground for saying that China is temporarily ineligible to be represented in the United Nations at all. There is nothing sensible to be said for its being represented by Chiang Kai-shek and the small group of aging courtiers who surround him.

Nathaniel Peffer, professor of international relations at Columbia University.

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The Rev. Van Wing, after visiting the schools of Belgian Congo, reported that 60% of the pupils had venereal diseases.

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In Kenya 3,000 European colonialists possess nearly 17.000 square miles of the best soil, while 5,500,000 Africans have only 50,000 square miles of second grade soil between (hem. ,

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Senator Knowland and his followers seem bent on involving the Linited States in war. Our experienced military President takes an opposite position, and it is refreshing to hear another distinguished military leader, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, decry preventive war. As a special guest at a meeting of Sigma Chi, a non-sectarian club of New York clergymen, General Ridgeway, former Supreme Commander of allied forces, said he did not believe’ that war was inevitable. He added that a preventive war would be “inconsistent with our professed principles and dangerous to the cause of liberty.” It would be both on “irrational act” and “moral bankruptcy at its worst.” It would “hardly accord with our repeated declarations that our primary purpose is the prevention of an honorable peace, that our principles forbid deliberate recource to aggressive war. History records some unpleasant examples of aggressive wars ending in ways the aggressors neither planned nor expected.”

The Churchman

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“...Most Americans don't know whether arming West Germany is wise. We are putting guns into the hands of a nation with a bent toward militarism—a country that caused two world wars, a coutry that today crackles with industrial vitality and that may again be tempted by rabid nationalism ...”

(The New Republic)

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LISTEN TO DR. HARRY MESSEL, Head of the Phyies Department of the University of Sydney, Australia, as he describes the new age of prosperity which atomic energy could bring to Australia.

“Her arid deserts .comprising a large part of the interior would be irrigated and transformed into lush pastures and fertile fields. The country would be able to support many many millions more people and rich opportunities would be open to every man and woman. Industries would be run by atomic power, the new ‘Atomic Look' of cities cleansed of soot and smoke, houses heated from atomic piles which would pipe warm air in the winter and cool air in the summer, motor cars running continuously on a single charge of fuel, rocket planes linking Sydney to London in an hour and lastly food which would stay fresh indefinitely without refrigeration.”