1987. március (14-32. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

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24/D Líttle Rutsell Street, LONDON, WC.i ■ T'l Ol-tso H 26 ■ G. Krassó

28/1987 /E/ l6th March, 1987

The speech of György Krassó, which was played oh a tape-recorder to participants at the 1848 commemoration evening

In the evening of the 14th of March, 1987, the independent artist group INCONNU organized an evening of commemoration in the Budapest home of Tibor Philipp jr. to pay tribute to the memory of the 1848 democratic revolution., We print below the message of György Krassó of London, which was played on a tape-recorder to the participants at the evening of commemoration.:

My Dear Friends/

London is quite a noisy city and we live in a particulariy noisy part of it. The lorries hoot and squeak mainly in the morning, shouting goes on all day, whereas shrieks may be heard rather in the night - we soon learnt that on such occasion it is nőt somebody being murdered, bút rather being lóvéd very much -, the fire alarm systems go wrong all the time and keep buzzing, to which, of course, nobody pays the slightest attention. We have become accus- tomed to all this soon. However, orieday in November last year suddenly the nőise of mines exploding, the impact of ptojectiles and machine-gun fire c.ould be heard. Old memories stirred. and í rah to thé window to see the first ;

brotherly tanks of liberation,but I waited in váin - they just failed to arrive. Then we went out to the Street and. it turnéd out that it was Guy Eawkes Day, the name of this Cafholic terrorist of the XVIth or XVIIth cen- tury, an early predecessor of those. today, who managed to sm-uggle a barrel fiiled with gunpowder in the Parliament building, bút the plot was headlessly organized, he was betrayed, caught and soon became headless, too. On the day of the anniversary, ever since, the sons and daughters - mainly children •— of the nation crack petards, play with bonfire, shoot about with toy guns and a few houses always even burn down. The English people, usually rather gloomy, ape happy on this day.

And nőt only on this day. They have a large number of holidays; true, these are nőt related to glorious military victories or mournful defeats, although their history could provide occasions fór both in sufficient number.- 1 t