Magyar Herald, 1993 (1-4. szám)
1993 / 4. szám
4th QUARTER, 1993 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE MAGYAR CLUB OF CLEVELAND MAGYAR HERALD "PERPETUATING HUNGARIAN CULTURE SINCE 1924" i Prelude To Our Approaching \ Seventieth Milestone Celebration J Seventy years of our Magyar Club’s local existence has occurred in the most dramatic seventy years of human history on the globe. During that period, events of world history went wild - wreaked havoc on this globe! The greatest loser, that had the worst of it, was our own Motherland! World War I ended in 1918. Horthy had conquered the Moscow-instigated Communist hordes invading Hungary. In 1920, he was elected Regent of Hungary to rule for a quarter of a century under most bizarre turns of historical events. Trianon came on June 4, 1920. Hungary was brutally dismembered to one-third of her prewar area and two-fifths of her former population. Devastating whirlwinds came from the South, West and East: Mousselini, Hitler and Stalin. All connections between the Motherland and us were cut off for good for decades to come. A At such times of tremendous odds the Magyar Club of Cleveland came into existence and had its birth! Even before the outbreak of World War I, an "older group1' of professional Hungarians of Cleveland had come together occasionally for the purpose of "perpetuating Hungarian culture". While World War I was raging, a younger group of college graduates with Hungarian extraction gathered together every week as "Saturday Diners" with the same purpose in mind for a number of years. In the year of 1924, these two groups merged into a single unit known as the Aurora Club, which name was later changed to Magyar Club. The Club, now organized, for the evident reason of the "Motherland" being on one side in the war and the "Adopted Land" being on the other side, carefully kept itself away completely free from political and religious interests of any kind. Since whirlwinds from left to right and right to left started to blow with enormous power all over the world, a neutral stance proved to be the safest course, at least for the time being. The Cleveland Magyar Club preceded, with its actions, the movements of the future yet to be born. The Magyar Clubhere practiced civil rights long before the birth of civil rights and ecumenism long before it became a fashionable behavior in this land or anywhere else. During the long course of seventy years, the Magyar Club has been the prime promoter of all Hungarian cultural activities in this "Magyar Debrecen" on the shore of Lake Erie. The approaching SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY on the 13th day of May next year deservedly and worthily will have to be the true and real "Te Deum" celebration of all Hungarians. -Magyarok! Föl a szivekkel!JÓ imunIca! Szép muIatás voItI LrqyEN TOVÁbbitA is az lEQAlÁbb MÉq SZÁZHETVEN esztencJőre! \ „A múlt erős, gazdag gyökér, jelen, jövő a múltból él... (Arany János)
