Szittyakürt, 1977 (16. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1977-12-01 / 12. szám

FIGHTER

OCTOBER 23, 1977

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Continue the Struggle to the ultimate liberation of our kind, our culture, our beloved Mother Land.

We fought together then. Shall we continue together now?! The blood of the dead heroes left their mark on us and we are destined to continue the struggle. So, we have been doing just that all over the world since 1956, and five years later we brought forth the Szittyakürt and another four years produced the Fighter!

A handful of brothers and sisters of true Magyar blood put their heads and shoulders together and hand in hand with dozens of other faithful supporters carried on the work within the organization: the Hungária Freedom Fighter Movement. Many thousands of Magyars patiently awaited month after month for the arrival of the Szittyakürt along with the Fighter— the official voices of the HFFM in Hungarian and in English languages.

To be sure the struggle was hard and at times almost equal to the impossible; however, in the service of the Magyar Haza one may die, but tire never! This is why we are calling on you again and again so that you may not tire. Do not allow yourself to sink into a careless and helpless stupor. Do not just throw up your hands and critize or turn away in disgust into the dead end of hopelessness. When you calculate your

income taxes, do you count in the dollars that you have sent us? Have you sent us . . . ? —for Your Voice? When you buy your first drink in the bar or at the restaurant, will you sacrafice the price of the second one to support Your Cause? As Christmas comes will you be imaginative and daring by paying for a year’s subscription to the Szittyakürt and Fighter as a gift to your loved one, to a friend, or to a buddy at work—a Gift to Yourself?

The dead heroes have already payed dearly—in Total! The living heroes are us — You and Me who are paying in Installments until we see before our eyes the glorious day of National Freedom and Independence—the dream of the Magyars of hundreds of years! That day will surely come because we will work for it. You will support us as you have never done before! You will struggle with us as it is befitting because you, too, are Magyar brothers and sisters with clear conscience. We believe in ourselves still as we have done in 1956.

Together We Struggle! Together We Shall Win! Our Kind and Mother Land will survive . . . Our God of the Magyars would not want it any other way! We always get what we are willing to pay for . . . Will you help us to carry the flag? . . . The flag of the heroic OCTOBER 23rd of 1956!

Some of you still remember how the three-color flag was freed from its symbol of foreign Soviet rule — which had been desecrating it since August 20th, 1949. Some of you were there at the foot of the Joseph Bern statue at Buda when the brave college students cut out the Rákosi- Roth imposed soviet-satellite emblem from the Hungarian national flag. There was a hole left in the middle of that flag—a new symbol of a new revolution —the Modern Freedom Fight for the Future Hungary! . . . Were you there?

As the air of the newly envisioned Magyar freedom flowed through the holey flag which rippled in the early evening wind of the advancing Fall season, it became clearer every moment and every hour that soon the Nation would shake off the yoke of foreign rule. The idea was daring and earth-shaking quite befitting the Magyar temperament and will... Where you there? What were you doing then?

When the tens of thousands of young and old disillusioned Hungarians were ready to die in the unbelievable struggle, suffering and hunger in the middle of the Carpath-Basin the hopes and dreams of millions of other Hungarian brothers and sisters in the peripheric regions of historic Hungary—namely the liberation of the Czech, Soviet, Rumanian, Serb and Austrian occupied regions since 1920 —also seemed to become a reality . . . Did you hope the same? Have you had the same dream?

As the first drop of Magyar blood was shed on the eve of October 23, 1956, so was the first step taken for the Reunification of the Magyars in the historic land of the Carpath Region!. . . What was your sacrafice for that glorious cause? Evidently we have not done enough! Twenty-one years are the witness to that . . . because, our millions of Magyar brothers and sisters in the Felvidék, in the Kárpáth-alja, in Erdély or Transylvania, in the Dél-Vidék and in the Nyugat-Magyar-ország as in the Soviet-Russian-ruled Middle- Kárpáth Magyar Haza are still suffering the foreign yoke! . . . What have you done that was honestly for them in the past 21 years —other than personally get older and more miserable.

If you want to lift up your spirit and dare to look into the future with proud Magyar eyes, you will instantly realize that you can still do your honest share. Some of us have done so throughout the past 21 years, and at times with less, at times with more effectiveness our sweat and sleepless nights, with many tens of thousands of miles and dollars and millions of words behind us we kept the Flame of the Revolution alive. We kept the Flag with the Hole flying. Our hope is still burning . . . Our dream is still vivid: We can foresee the Russian booths doing an about face! After 21 years we must shout louder than ever: “Ruszkik hazai’ — “Russians go homel'

Will you help us say it? Will you help us shout? Are our dreams the same? Are we all Magyars? Put your hand into my hand, your arm into mine, shoulder to shoulder and back to back—let us do it together—Let Us Share in the Struggle!

Let us not be sheepish. Let us not be cowards! Open up your pocket book as I have and will always do. Let us not be cheap and cynical! The cause of the Magyar Haza is dearer than your and my fortunes ever could be. You know as well as I do that we cannot take it to the grave... but your fortune and mine will become most precious when we spend it on the altar of our beloved Homeland—as we share in the same struggle! The God of the Magyars will approve. Mén-Apó

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WE MUST AH WORK TOGETHER

UNITED HUNGARIAN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT CARTER

('Continued from page one) and openly. We have nothing to conceal.

To demonstrate this commitment, I will seek congressional approval and sign the UN Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Andi will work closely with our own Congress in seeking to support the ratification not only of these two instruments but the UN Genocide Convention and the Treaty for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as well ....__ President Carter United Nations March 17, 1977

On June 1, 1977, President Carter signed another important document: the “American Convention on Human Rightsat the Pan American Union. The preamble of this convention is “Reiterating that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free man enjoying freedom from fear and want can be achieved only if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as his civil and political rights.”

Article 20. Right to Nationality, under Section 3. states:

“No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his Nationality or of the right to change it.”

Hungarian experiences of U.S.

Foreign Policy and Human Rights

Let us remind those in power that since 1920 the Hungarian people have experienced only deceit and the determental effect of U.S. foreign policy, at the Versailles, Yalta and Paris peace treaties, which are responsible for the present-day Romanian occupation of Transylvania. In 1956 when the Hungarian Freedom Fighters were dying on the streets against the Soviet onslaught the Voice of America’s exhuberant radio messages were only one side of the coin. President Eisenhower had sent a secret message through Tito of Yugoslavia to Moscow saying that the United States did not want to see nations unfriendly toward the Soviet Union on her borders. This action was in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, deceitful toward the Hungarian people and a prostitution of human rights. In 1975 the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, commonly known as the Helsinki Treaty, the United States signed an agreement of the status quo without a true representation of the people involved. These actions were sanctified by the signature of the Vatican. In all those “baskets” of the Helsinki accord, there is caracteristically only one bone one may chew upon, and that is the issue of Human Rights. We hope President Carter remembers—even since Helsinki our human rights were violated with the declaration of the Sonnenfeld Doctrine, and President Ford’s remarks “that there is no Soviet Domination in Eastern Europe” —which both were major factors in his election to the Presidency.

Will the Human Rights Issue Live or Die?

The United Hungarian Appeal is the acid test of the U.S. “reborn” Human Rights issue. We Hungarian-Americans have paid $30 billion in federal taxes —not counting interest —which were used for all sorts of reasons, in every part of the globe. Small nations like the 2.5 million Israelis received billions of dollars in support for their efforts of

survival. Another billion was spent by the USA for population control of the world through sterilization programs. There are more than 2.5 million Hungarians in Transylvania who also face the problem of survival, but they have not received one penny for their cause. The requested Emergency Economic Aid for Transylvania is only a small item, not billions for weapons, ammunition or business ventures, but pennies for schools, books, educational and cultural necessities, to combat Romania’s policies of genocide, which is picking up more and more speed ever since 1920.

From the different Hungarian memorandums, the President’s staff is familiar enough with the case of the Romanian oppression of Hungarians in Transylvania. Romania has violated the Charter of the United Nations and President Carter’s call for human rights. In spite of that, the Administration has extended the “Most Favored Nation” treatment to Romania by which billions worth of business deals were fabricated by U.S. business involving the next decade. U.S. President Carter desregarded those violations and the appeal of tens of thousands of Hungarian- Americans, who voted for him during the last election. Let us once more remind the President that looking back upon the U.S. foreign policies of the past the Hungarian people have seen only political postures, while our enemies received all the commitments. But there is a moral to that story: — UNJUST TREATIES EXIST ONLY BECAUSE THE POINT OF A GUN AND POSTURES NEVER LAST, EVEN FOR A ONE TERM PRESIDENCY! — The fate of Human Rights is in the hands of President Carter and the decision rests with him. Will it serve all of mankind or become just another tool for discrimination?

Louis Molnár

MICHAEL TOMPA (1817-1868)

THE BIRD TO ITS BROOD

How long, ye birds, on this sere bough Will ye sit mute, as though in tears?

Not quite forgotten yet are now The songs I taught ye, surely, dears;

But if for aye are vanished quite Your former cheer, your song so gay,

A sad and wishful tune recite—

Oh, children, sing to me, I prayl

A storm has raged; our rocks apart Are rent: glad shade you cannot find;

And are ye mute, about to start And leave your mother sad behind?

In other climes new songs are heard

Where none would understand your lay,

Though empty is your home and bared Yet, children, sing to me, I pray!

In memory of this hallowed bower,

Shady and green, call forth a strain,

And greet the time when soon in flower These barren fields shall bloom again;

So, at your song, anew shall life

Wend quickly over this plain, its way,

Sweetening the day with sorrow rife—

Oh, children, sing to me, I pray!

Here in the tree is the old nest

Where you were cherished times gone by;

Return to it, and therein rest,

Albeit among the clouds you fly;

Now that the storm has laid it bare,

Would you the traits of men display?

Leaving this place, your home transfer?

Oh, children, sing to me, I pray!

Translated by W. N. Loew— Revised by Egon F. Kunz PhD