Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 27. (Kaposvár, 1996)

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Sándor Bősze: Somogy in the light and the shade of the millennium The study gives the detailed description of the participation of Somogy county in the festivals of the millennium based on archival sources, contemporary press and other publications. The author built the local preparations and the ceremonial events into the nationwide program of events. Bősze presents not only the positive side of what Somogy did, but also the negative one. He does not shun the passivity and the lack of interest of certain social strata. The study covers every bit of the celebrations. László Paál: The press of Somogy county 1891-1918. (Second publication) The author continues processing the theme begun in our previous issue. He goes through the weeklies and dailies of the period under examination. He points out their main characteristics of content, genre and technology, beginning from the first and continuously published newspaper of the county till the Smallholder of Somogy which came out as the last. Among others, in the publication we can see the circumstances of how the weekly Somogy, which was published for over half a century came to an end, which can be put down as a curiosity in press history. From the publication we also get a picture of the papers edited and delivered locally in villages, which were the important means of culture and intellectual life in the decades of the turning of the century. The author separately examines the relationship between settlement and area development and the press, and he points out how the events of the millennium appeared in the papers of the county. Lorant Tilkovszky. ,,Now the last hour of action has come" Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre's memorandum of Februaty 4, 1942 to Governor Horthy Miklós In the territory given to Yugoslavia through the Peace Treaty of Trianon (1920), but retrieved at the disintegration of this southern Slavic country in April, 1941, circumstances extremely ran wild under the Hungarian military, then civil administration, and it was only worsened by the Hungarian interference by force. The public hangings based on the verdicts of a number of marshal courts, the atrocities with a view to intimidating the Serbian and Jewish population turned into bloody pogroms in two districts and then spreading onto especially the town of Újvidék in the January of 1942. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Endre (1886-1944) a representative of the opposition, from the Independent Smallholders Party, who already in the beginning called the attention to the foreboding phenomena and urged the Bárdossy government for months to no avail to take measures against them, now spurred by the terrible news coming about the bloodshed at Újvidék turned directly to the head of state, the Governor Horthy Miklós with a shocking memorandum in an effort to bring the guilty ones, mainly army and police officers directly responsible for the events, to trial. Sándor Orbán: What happened to the manor laborers after 1945? Mostly a horizontal direction was characteristic of the small-scale mobility of the manor laborers slowly decreasing in number in the 20

th century. Not even the re-allotment of land in 1945 and then the cooperative