1987. március (14-32. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
gdffi 24/D Líttle ÍWell Street, LONDONI, ItíC.L -T*l. 04-4*0 z< ze • G. Krassé 24/1987 /E/ 14th March, 1987 An evening of commemoration in Budapest Today, the 14th of March, a festive evening of commemoration was held on the eve of the anniversary of the 1848 Hungárián democratic revolution. The event which began at 6 pm in the Budapest home of Jr. Tibor Philipp was organized by the independent árts group, INCONNU. The police did nőt interfere, despite the fact that gatherings held without advance police permission are forbidden in Hungary. Somé 50 people came to the fiat: many young people, several participants of the democratic opposition, Sándor Rácz, chairman of the Great Budapest Central Worker Council in October 1956, and somé foreign correspondents. The evening of commemoration began, sjrtnbolically, with Peter Bokros, member of the INCONNU, serving red wine in green striped white plastic glasses which thus encompassed the national colours of the flag of Hungary, the red-white-green. Then a young mán performed improvised versions of the songs of the 1848 revolution on a saxofon after which Jr. Tibor Philipp, as hőst, said a few words. Rezső Forgács, who in 1985 was sentenced to seven months in prison fór his amateur theatre work, read parts from the Debrecen speech of Lajos Kossuth on the 14th of April 1849 which accompanied the Hungárián declaration of independence. He alsó read parts from the words of General Klapka which he addressed to the castle guards of Komárom at the handing over of the town on the 3rd of October, 1849* Following this the philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás gave a festive speech, thftn graphic artist Tamás Molnár of the INCONNU group recalled the police confiscation of the works of árts which were intended fór the exhibition of the group in January, He alsó introduced a new drawing of his which depicts Imre Nagy, the executed Prime Minister of the 1956 revolutionary government, embracing Lajos Batthyány, the executed Prime Minister of the 1848 revolutionary government. /Photocopies of the drawing went on sale in the home and the sum raised was given to the "Foundation fór the Poor"/. After this György Krassó’s tape recorded message from London was played to those present,then a young actor, Sándor Halmágyi, read quotes of speeches from 1848. The commemoration evening ended with singing the Hungárián national anthem.
