1987. május (53-73. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

The West, on the other hand, after it exorcised Belzebub with Sátán, can do no better than continue under the topic of humán rights what Wallenberg has beguns it intercedes fór making exceptions, fór exemption, immigration, unification of families,exit visas, individual amnesty. This is odd jobs and though respectable, necessarily insufficient. All this is no guarantee against what we, subjects of tyrannies, feel - may be irrationally - in our bones, that the horrors may repeat themselves. There is no official Antisemitism in Hungary today, but,e.g., there is in the Soviet Union and Rumania. This is a small scrap of comfort, however, when we look at the racial discrimination against the gypsies accepted with resig- nation by most of the Hungárián public, when we see the indifference, veiled by empty and insincere phrases, towards the Hungárián minorities abroad, when we feel the uncouth nationalism towards our ill-fated Eastem-European neighbours.

In the ideological vacuum due to the crisis of the Party, if we do nőt care, all reasonable thoughts could be washed away by the blind nationalist hatred - a stone-hard tradition of ours, as signs show.

Racism - finished his speech Miklós Gáspár Tamás - has its traditions and the tradition its upholders.Let those be honoured, who rescued a few dozens from transports of hundreds of thousands crammed intő death-trains. We have hope in the coming of democracy, bút hope is too little nőt to have fear. Just because our bodies, scared of blows, are frail and perishable, it is advisable to hang our eyes upon our ideals. So that our last resort should nőt be the Swedish passport."

After Miklós Gáspár Tamás, György Gadó, member of the independent Jewish peace-group "Salom", read out in Hungárián and in Knglish the statement of the group, dated 1 May, about the crisis of the Hungárián social and political System, the necessity of the democratic renewal and the problems of understanding between Jews and non-Jews.

About seventy people attended the opening of the exhibition open fór a week, among them a number of foreign diplomata, politicians and joumalists. The com- munity-house is intended to come forward with a new programme every two weeks; next time they are going to have a conversation by phone with two Russian artists immigrated to the USA and presently staying in Oxford, England.- 2 -