Szittyakürt, 1979 (18. évfolyam, 2-12. szám)
1979-12-01 / 12. szám
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION OF »invAKim Official publication of the Revolutionary Council of the HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER VOL. V. No. 1. FEBRUARY 1979 MOVEMENT WHERE ARE YOU GOING, RUMANIA? UNITED HUNGARIAN APPEAL On October 25, 1978, delegates of the Hungária Freedomfighter Movement met with Steven Larrabee, National Security Council staff member and held a two hours conference on the issue of Transylvanian Hungarians. The delegation consisted of: R. R. Tibor Dömötör, Bishop of the Independent Hungarian Reformed Churches in Ame-US National Security Council staff member Steven Larrabee and HFM Chairman of Foreign Affairs. rica, Prof. Andor P-Jobb, President of the HFM and Mr. Louis F. Molnár, Chairman of HFM’s Foreign Affairs Committee. The members of the delegation explained the Hungarian position on the issue of Transylvania and presented a nine point memorandum to the NSC for consideration. Part of this submittal was the United Hungarian Appeal, a collection of petitions signed by over 200 Hungarian organizations, requesting Emergency Economic Aid for the Hungarian institutions in Transylvania. Mr. Larrabee said the memorandum will be studied and an official response will be made. The HFM representatives argued that the administration was very soft on the human rights violations by Rumania. Mr. Larrabee said the administration preferred “quiet diplomacy” over noisy rhetoric and felt that would be more successful, on the long run. Mr. Molnár stressed the fact that the Hungarian requests were compatible with the national interest of the United States and are in clear agreement with the human rights commitments of the administration. Officials, including the President discussed the human rights issue of Transylvanian Hungarians with members of the Rumanian Government but did not disclose any details. The HFM will make every effort to continue the dialogue with the NSC. Our delegates told Mr. Larrabee that the 1.3 million Hungarian- American electorates will look at the Transylvanian issue in terms of results, come 1980 elections. The Hungária Freedomfighter Movement (HFM) managed to gain representation at a two-day Rumanian symposium which was held at the well-known Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, U.S.A. on November 26 and 27, 1978. The Rumanian Americans, closely supported by the government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania held this symposium in the framework of the Ethnic Studies of KSU to “celebrate” the 60th anniversary of the “unification of great Rumania. ” Bucarest promptly sent out two scholars to give present day Rumania’s historical view which was as objective as one would expect from the two comrades. The Revolutionary Council of the Hungária Freedomfighter Movement requested a chance for equal representation since Hungary and in particular Transylvania, would be a major issue of the subjects discussed at the symposium. The History Department, which sponsored the Rumanian celebration as part of their Ethnic Studies program, was at fist reluctant to comply with the demands of the HFM, but when the Hungária Freedomfighter Movement quite convincigly made the KSU professors understand that the symposium will not be allowed to take place without Hungarian representation!, they soon found ways to grant time for the art history professor, Andor Paposi-Jobb to present the Hungarian view. Much credit and appreciation should go to Professors Dr. G. Wilson and Dr. J. Cadsow of KSU for their patient and diligent coordination of this symposium! The HFM and other concerned Hungarian Human Rights organizations and emigrant groups proceeded to demonstrate in an orderly fashion with impressive numbers at the sight of the symposium and later the Hungarians filled the lecture hall so full that the meeting had to be held in a larger room to accomodate everyone. The following is the speech of Professor Paposi-Jobb. One can be sure that his words were not pleasing to the Rumanian delegates. But then, as Right Rev. Tibor Dömötör put it: “These forgers and robbers have no conscience . . . and their souls are doomed!” . . . Dear Professors: Glee Wilson and John Cadzow, Dear (?) Rumanian Fellow Travelers, My Dearest Native Transylvanians, Ladies and Gentleman! In one way it is not nice for me to be here today because the message that I am about to relate to you will not be a pleasant one for some of you. For another reason it is a pleasure for me to be here today because I see the future to be bright for the Hungarian people in Transylvania. The curse of the bloodsucking Dracula is not a fiction in our modern day. The Rumanian Dracula is fat and alive today in Transylvania. The victims are the more than 3 Vi million native Hungarians whom the Socialist Republic of Rumania wishes to write off the map. However, time and time again in history the Hungarians rose and overcame all internal and external enemies and hardships. They overcame the 150 years of Roman rule. They overcame the rule of the Tatars, the one and a half centuries of Turkish rule, the 450 years of Habsburg rule and now they will have to overcome the Trianon of 1920 just as they will resurrect from the chauvinistic cruelty of Rumania. Today millions of Hungarians are forced to live either under foreign rule inside of their own country or in foreign lands. The Hungarian emigrants constitute one of the greatest forces and treasures all over the five continents of this world who will be in the position to help solve the future of the Hungarians including those who still live in Transylvania! These Hungarian emigrants like myself have the greatest weapons on Earth: namely, intelligence, a most ancient history, the original language: the Magyar, extraordinary genes, the greatest will to live and above all, the TRUTH! You see, the Hungarians unlike the Rumanians, do not have to scrape together a makeshift national history and steal names, territories and national heroes. Most every one here knows that the “Daco theory” behind the superficially put-together Rumania of 1920 is a falsehood. So why waste time talking about it. When the Roman Trajanus won over the Daci tribe in 106 A.D. he knew that he had temporarily conquered the Scythian horsemen, the Daci of Transylvania or Dahae, for later in 275 A.D. Aurelianus was forced to give up Dacia which only in the 17th Century A.D. came to be referred to as Transylvania by the Latin speaking church authorities—its literal meaning being “beyond the forest” or “forest land”—a straight translation from the Hungarian Erdély. “Dac” in Magyar means proud, sturdy, ambitious, characteristics just right for the Hungarians! About the Wallach’s shifty character read the Greek, Roman and other records . . . such as the Kekaumenos Cronicle of 1066 A.D. The Hungarians do not have to steal a land and population as the Rumanians did and do not have to practice mass deportation methods in cow wagons, as Stalin proposed and put into reality. If the Hungarian population is diminishing today in Transylvania as a result of impatient Rumanian policies the native children and their children of Transylvania will remember a hundred, a thousand and 2 thousand years from now and will go back to that land victorious—as the Jews in Israel are doing today. As you have seen, we are here today and we will win tomorrow! Internal and external terror cannot break down the Hungarian. The Hungarians do not have to steal names and heroes—and Anna Kemenes may be Romanized to Nadia Komanechi today but she will forever remain an Hungarian sport heroin along with her able Hungarian coaches. (Continued on page 2) I THE WILL I OF A FIGHTER| (By R. Rev. Tibor Dömötör) Bishop Zoltán Beky with Sen. R.f. Dole and Repr. E. ]. Patten speaks in behalf of Transylvania in Washington D C. in 1978. Some painful news ran across the free world: on the dawn of November 26, 1978 in a hospital in Washington, D.C. the heart of the greatest American Hungarian of the twentieth century Dr. Zoltán Béky beat its last. A chapter of a human life came to a conclusion—a fighter left us behind. The battle, however, is not finished! The struggle for the freedom, independence and for the reunification of the Carpathian Basin of the Magyars ceaselessly contiuning! The soul of Bishop Zoltán Béky continues to live among us inspiring us to new achievement and new victories. Zoltán Béky did not become the leader of the American Hungarians by mere accident. Our Lord God— Hadúr chose him for this incredible task. In his youth he already surpassed his peers in studies and in vocation. He prepared well for the future. He was still a pupil during W.W. I, but the heroic deeds and victories of the Hungarian soldiers left great impressions in his heart. And so did the destructive results of that war scarred his heart as the Magyar nation suffered great losses and was divided. He pledged that through his earthly life he will fight against injustice and he embroidered on the flag of his life the bloodsealed holy program of the Hungarian Freedom Fighter’s: “For God, Country, and Nation!” His church soon recognized this T
