Szittyakürt, 1979 (18. évfolyam, 2-12. szám)

1979-12-01 / 12. szám

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FIGHTS*

FEBRUARY, 1979

aspiration and talented young minister and sent him to the U.S.A. No sooner did he arrive in America, which he considered his temporary home to the end of his life, he became involved with the Anti- Trianon movements of the Magyars. One of the largest congregations quickly recognized in him the leader of the future and in Trenton, N.J. he was elected to the ministry. The Trentonians proclaimed “we need not only a minister but a Hungarian leader, not only a preacher but a man of faith and action!” Zoltán Béky never forgot this calling that originated from his blood brothers and from his God. He conscientiously organized and strengthened his congregation and multiplied the meager into great followings, rewarding the Hungarian flame, reawakening the Hungarian conscience, realigning the battle rows of the tired and disillusioned Magyars.

Resulting from his work the American Hungarian Reformed Church had a Rennaissance. The new reformed Hungarian life captured the interest of all the American Hungarians. Zoltán Béky, the man of God, was a Hungarian Prophet. He used the past as an example but always spoke of the future. Never ever did he say nor did he do nor did he undersign anything that was harmful to his beloved nation, or endangered his kin’s future. Before his genious the world opened up. He achieved all that he ever could have on this Earth. He became a bishop, a leader of congregations, president of associations, conferred with American presidents, senators and representatives. He represented the needs of the Magyars in small churches as well as at pompous world conferences.

While at home József Mindszenty, László Ravasz and Lajos Ordass led the nation’s resistance, freedom fight and the movement for independence—Zoltán Béky in the United States of America became the leading inspiration of the same objectives. Even his enemies respected him and accredited him.

He traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, and preached thousands of sermons and delivered as many speeches. He wrote hundreds of articles in the defens of and for the cause of the Magyar future. He became a fanatic warrior and defender of his suffering Hungarian brothers and the spokesman on behalf of his nation.

The last decade of his life was spent struggling for the Magyars of Erdély (Transylvania). He often declared that: “There shall be no peace in the Carpathian region as long as Transylvania will not be once again reunited with the Hungarian Motherland.’’ Then he added with an assuring smile: “Naturally, this is true also as far as the Northern Carpaths, the Southern and Western regions are concerned . . We lost in him a true man, a true Magyar and an unfailing fighter!

The fight is not yet over! His life, struggles and his declaration of faith obligates us all. From our sorrows we shall forge weapons, from our fears belief and from our memories pledges shall spring. We shall bring Zoltán Béky’s life-struggle to victory. We shall achieve the freedom of Hungary, her independence and the unification of the Magyars into the motherland. So help us God!

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, RUMANIA?

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The Hungarians do not have to steal Culture. The oldest written material ever unearthed was found in Tordos—Transylvania and it was written in Hungarian. Just as the next oldest ones in Mesopotamia were written in Hungarian and the oldest next to that were written in Ancient Egypt and also in Hun-Prof. Andor P-Jobb

garian. Even the English language by my research alone contains thus far some 2,000 Hungarians words. Furthermore, only 1/5 of the Rumanian language is Latin, 3/5 is Slavic, 1/5 is Hungarian, Albanian, Greek, etc. and no Rumanian topographical names can be found in Transylvania prior to the 13th Century. A Roman historian once wrote:

“Concordia res pervae crescunt

Dis cordia maximae dilabuntur”

“In unity the little forces become big

In disunity the greatest forces will perish!”

Let us stop the falsification of truth! Long shall live the truth of Transylvania!

By the way—this meeting should have been put together in 1980 since the official seccession of Transylvania took place on June 4, 1920.

The thousands of years old past is ours; The political present is yours—But if there is justice in history on this world—The future, too, will be ours!

No sooner was the symposium at KSU concluded when the Vol. 72, No. 23 of the Rumanian News AMERICA was published on Dec. 7, 1978 and in the flying three colors of Rumania it shamelessly and quite explicitly spelled out the Rumanian plan to “enlarge Rumania from the Dnestr to the Tisza!!!’’ . . . and my dear Magyar brothers as they said: “. . . by any means ...”

Dear brothers and sisters, the Hungarian cannot afford to forget 1918 when the Rumanians overran Transylvania and Hungary. We cannot forget Trianon of 1920! Support your local Hungarian organizations that FIGHT for Human Rights and for the liberation of Transylvania! Your ancestors and your future children deserve it!

MÉN-APÓ

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It is very unfortunate that the Rumanians, as so many other new political upstarts, attempt to create history and shaky justification on which to base their unjustly earned temporary conquests. At Kent State we have heard 2 days of such “historical justifications. ” However,

Dr. Ernő Kovács from Toronto, Canada, tells the world as it was and as it is now. He also shows how the Rumanians and Magyars might well do too if we are tp survive the future:

The Great Rumania ceased in 1940 and has not been able to resume her position since then, nor will she ever. At that time she lost Bessarabia, which she received as a gift from the victorious Central Powers in conjunction with the 1918 Peace of Bucharest. Similarly, in 1940 she had to return North-Transylvania (Erdély) to Hungary and the stolen Dobrudzsa square to the Bulgarians, in accordance with the second Vienna Council. With their most recent conversion and by right of Soviet weapons the Rumanians have again taken into possession Transylvania (Erdély) in its entirety and the disgraceful Treaty of Paris blessed the 1946 severing of our ancient Hungarian land and our native people. The Soviet Union kept Bessarabia and Bukovina for herself, Bulgaria also claimed readjustment of frontiers, and so out of all the looting, treachery and bloody sacrifice of the Balkan and two World Wars, a much smaller Rumania emerged. This is the dilemma of the Rumanians:

Now they need only to lose Transylvania, this thousands of years old Hun-Avar-Magyar possession, and they will be back to where they were in 1852 at the union of the Olah principalities of Havaselve and Moldovia, or in 1877, when with Russian help they defeated Turkey’s armed forces and the new state of Rumania and the Rumanian kingship (Regat) was born, along with the shortlived dynasty of the Prussian Hohenzollern ruling family. Count Gyula Andrássy, joint Austrian-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and German Imperial Chancellor Bismarck, supported the birth of the new nation. The Balkan wars brought Rumania an increase in prestige and territory (to the loss of Bulgaria). Then in 1916 followed the assult from the rear on her former allies, the Central Powers, when the Rumanian royal troops marched upon the defenseless Transylvania with brass band and closed columns. But the Hungarian and German World War veterans quickly gathered from the front lines swept the ambushers from Transylvania with their counter-attack and with their mobile military operations took possession of the capital of Bucarest and pursued them to the tip of Moldavia.

The collapse, the Wilson Principles, the retreat of the Balkan German-Hungarian troops, the army-opposed revolution of 1918, and the disruption of the military forces opened the way for the defeated Rumanians to the Maros — and under the Soviet Republic to Budapest itself. With the frontiers of Trianon, the wildest of the Rumanian dreams were realized, which their great poet Eminescu expressed in this way: “Dela Nistru pan la Tisa” (Everything from the Dny est er to the Tisza will be the Rumanians!). And we can say for a fact that since 1852 the Rumanians, with their selfcontained, resolute politics have constantly been on the rise, while we, since 1849 have stagnated or sunk. The decline has been minimized by the compromise of 1867, then by the following 50-years peace, calm and development, and the immigration and assimilation falsely claimed to be equivalent to the emmigration. But the cosmetic treatment did not solve our huge

problems, the questions of constitution, nationality, land and social questions. On these levels the Hungarian ship of statehood was almost smashed to death in 1918.

During this same period, however, Rumania ruled her prolific, unassuming, meek people as a selfcontained, independent country. Her leaders not only expected but created opportunities, or at least took advantage of possibilities. The Eastern and Western Great Powers promised her Transylvania in writing if she would attack her former allies from behind. Even bloody sacrifice did not deter them from this great task, indeed they suffered humiliating defeat, but finally achieved their goal: the Great Rumania became a reality, even if only for 22 years.

But trees do not grow to the sky. During World War II, namely in 1940, the Rumanian dilemma was brought up, one which the then Rumanian leaders could not solve with any amount of acrobatics, not twenty years later their present tightrope-walking politicians. The diminished Middle Rumania is missing only one step towards becoming Little Rumania, that is, the loss of Transylvania! Hence the desperate clinging to the diversely inhabiated ancient Magyar property: Hence the termination of autonomies and treatment of the Hungarian nationality not from a Transylvanian, but from an entirely Rumanian point of view; that is why, ignoring every historical fact, they will advertise the Dákó-Rumanian dreams. They think that what was well-proven during the period of so-called “accursed liberalism and fascism” will again be proven in today’s untruthful system of “socialist realism.” The nightmare of the pure, monopolistic Rumanian state’s desire is still on their bloody minds, perhaps more so than ever. Quo usque tandem — How long will this dream last, Rumania? Domnu Ceausescu, the solution to the dilemma is not opposition to the Hungarians. History and erroneous politics must be revised! The time of selfknowledge and self-criticism, the time to settle with the Rumanian national lies has long arrived. In the Slavic Sea, in Panslavism, only with mutual understanding and support can the Rumanians and Hungarians survive. As soon as foreign authority is felt, be that Slavic or German (or Turkish in olden days), the existence of the two nations is threatened at the roots. The younger Wesselényi predicted this, though by then he had lost his sight. Kossuth and Rumania’s youth also discovered by 1849 that their prophet would draw the final conclusions in exile. It is worth briefly mentioning the part of the young historian from Havaselve, Balcescu, during the years 1848-49, because the public, with the exception of Transylvanians, has perhaps not heard much of him. It is my belief that it is this source to which the Rumanian leaders must return. In the Rumanian principalities the Hungarian liberal generation was the ideal, the model of Niculai Balcescu and his associates. The 1848 movement of the Rumanian youths beyond the Carpathians was unsuccessful. The granting of independence and the uniting of the principalities fell through. For this reason all their hope was cast upon the Hungarian revolution and war of independence. They saw with anxiety that the inflexibility of the Viennese kamarilla, the Habsburg emissaries, as well as that of Kossuth with regard to the nationality ques-