Szittyakürt, 1981 (20. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1981-12-01 / 12. szám

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION OF

«ITTVAKÖfcT

VOL. VI. No. 1-2.

OCTOBER 1981

Official publication of the

Revolutionary Council of the

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HUNGÁRIA FREEDOM FIGHTER MOVEMENT

THE Vth CONGRESS OF THE HUNGARIAN FREEDOMFIGHTERS fMÉ

Professor Francisco Jos Badiny from Buenos Aires, Argentina said that October 23, 1956 the glorious day of the Hungarian Freedomfight is a “Sacred Day of Awakening.” The 25th annual commemoration of that historic event is indeed a sacred matter for all freedom loving Hungarians. The late Cardinal József Mindszenty, the last Prince Primate of Hungary whom along with Bishop László Ravasz of the Hungarian Protestant faith and with Bishop L^jos Ordas of the Hungarian Evangelic Church, all of whom were re-elevated into their respective offices after being freed from jail by the freedom fighters, said on October 31, 1956:

"God is the organist behind the organ of history and in these days out of the noise of the clashing armours the sigh of freedom of the youth and of the Hungarian working class can be heard.”

Hungarians in exile all over the world are busily making plans to commemorate honourably the 25th anniversary of the National Liberation and Freedomfight of 1956, and so is the Hungária Freedom Fighter Movement! The true freedomfighters of the bloody barricades from Budapest and from all across Hungary are going to lower the flags of the Glorious Freedom Fight and the original Flag of the Exiled Magyars

that Péter Seres sent on its first journey in the free world after 1956.

The Hungária Freedom Fighter Movement views the 25th year commemoration of the National Revolution and Freedomfight not only as a celebration of victory but also the year of contemplation and self-evalution. This year the Revolutionary Council of the H.F.F.M. in the light of past years’ experiences and achievemens will once again measure up the distances that this revolutionary organization traveled in the past 25 years and will re-evaluate and will give an account of the services rendered to the cause of Hungary and for the betterment of the universal Hungarian entity. For these reasons and respecting the request of the patrons, the H.F.F.M. decided to SUMMON THE Vth Congress!

The Vth Congress of the Hungarian Freedomfighters will convene in Cleveland, Ohio on October 31 and on November 1, 1981 at the West-side Hungarian Reformed Church (15300 Puritas Avenue).

Although it requires great expenses and much sacrifice our attainable objectives are the: Liberation of Hungary; The Independence of our Motherland; The regaining of the lost territories of our Carpathian

Region; The further improvement of the living standards and happiness of our people; and the realization of the sacred missions of the exiled Hungarians!

We can cover only a portion of the enourmous expense of the Vth Congress of the Hungarian Freedomfighters. This is why we had to turn to our Magyar brothers in the free world and did the Hungarian Freedom Fighter Movement—the host of the Vth Congress—organized a patronage and asked them for their unselfish support. We whole heartedly thank the Patrons for the quick response and for their generous support so far—but their are more needs and more help needed! We graciously await for the forth coming of more patrons and for their support.

Last month we sent our again along with our Hungarian publication the Szittyakürt patronage request forms for those Hungarian brothers and sisters who did not yet respond to our call in the past months. Now we appeal to you again and ask for your whole hearted support by sending us your check or money order, by your subscribing to the Szittyakürt and the Fighter and by your honoured pre* '

sence at the two day Congress and Commemoration!

The program data and the slate of the speakers of the Vth Congress of the Hungarian Freedomfighters has

been mailed to all the subscribers of our official new organs and to all the patrons as well as to a numerous Hungarian and Hungarophile organizations, churches, businesses, and individuals. The program will contain ancient historical, political and cultural matters and the broad audience will be asked to participate in discussing the crucial issues that pertain to Hungarian and current world wide issues by submitting their questions to the various speakers—as we have done in the previous four congresses in past years.

The Hungária Freedom Fighter Movement and its patron organizations cordially invite all Magyars in exile to attend the Vth Congress of the Hungarian Freedomfighters and the 25th Commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, thus paying homage to the memories of the Magyar Heroes and the National Awakening.

—The Congressional Organizing Committee—

IF THERE’S A NEW HUNGARY...

Comments in Restrospect to an editorial from Life (3-4-57)

On December 14, 1955 the Hungarian Peoples’ Republic was admitted as a member nation to the United Nations Organization. Less than a year later on October 23, 1956, the working people and the students of Hungary rose up in revolt against the ruthless Rákosi- Gerő puppet regime that that zealousy served their imperialist bosses in Soviet Moscow.

The heroic Freedom Fight of the Hungarians changed the face of the world and the course of history even though the so-called Western Democracies failed to aid the Hungarians. Consequently, the chauvanist Russians invaded Hungary and not once but twice delivered crushing blows militarily against the freedom fighters.

What did the United Nations Organization and the USA do in behalf of Hungary twenty-five years ago is the subject of an Editorial that follows here as it appeared in Life Magazine (March 4, 1957, pg. 36): IF THERE IS A NEW HUNGARY.

As if to write finis to the tragic saga of Hungary, its Communist jailers have been laying fresh mines and barbed wire along the border, the guard towers are again bristling with machine guns, and patrol boats with searchlights hunt the canals. As the new prison door clangs shut, an inquest is in order. One question dominates all others: could we

have done more than we did to help free Hungary? The answer is: yes.

President Eisenhower decided against any direct military intervention, for the doubtless valid reason that it could have unleashed a nuclear war. Because of this a school of thinking, led by the University of Chicago’s Professor Hans Morgenthau, is now arguing that a "revolution” has taken place in U.S. foreign policy, that all plans for "liberation” have been abandoned and that we have instead reached a sort of tacit "spheres of influence” understanding with the Soviet Union. Such a policy, the reasoning goes, accepts the kind of semifreedom visible in Poland as the best that can be hoped for. To our mind such arguments misread the real lessons of the Hungarian tragedy.

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With such intellectuals and political individuals as Professor Hans fylorgenthau and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Hungary did not need any more enemies. By 1961 it became public knowledge that President Eisenhower sent a cablegram to Tito, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia, on November 2, 1956 which allegedly read: “The government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union.”

(Hearings on SR. 191 Senate Armed Services Committee, 1961, as was reported by Congressman Michael Feighan /D-Ohio/.)

On top of all this, as Tito also denounced the Hungarian Revolution as the work of “bandits”, President Eisenhower extended an invitation to Tito to come to the U.S. for a “friendly visit” on December 4, 1956. Furthermore, while President Eisenhower and acting Secretary of State Douglas Dillon were busy designating the third week in July, 1959 as “Captive Nations Week,” the White House also invited the butcher Nikita Khrushchev to tour the U.S. in the very same month of that year.

Khrushchev’s notorious murderous past had been documented and shown in 7 volumes by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Yet President Eisenhower entertained him at the historic Gettysburg where the Eisenhower grandchildren were photographed sitting on Khrushchev’s knees...

The resoning that helping the Hungarians against the Russians would have meant nuclear holocast proved to be nonsense. In the past 25 years the U.S. has backed

countries like Israel many times even though that often meant “opposing Russian interests” and the sky did not fall in.

The biggest lesson is not that a liberation policv has become obsolete but that the U.S. did not have such a policy ready—and consequently was unprepared to take any decisive action (short of military) during the brief period when it might have done some good. Time was the crucial factor in the Hungarian crisis. Had the U.N., with U.S. leadership, been able to act swiftly in the five days when Hungary was free, it might well have been able to forestall the subsequent Soviet invasion.

Some of the things that could have been done to help Hungary were outlined in The Netv Leader recently by Franklin A. Lindsay, former chief of the U.S. Military Mission to Yugoslavia. He starts with Nov. 2, the day Premier Imre Nagy proclaimed Hungary’s neutrality, demanded withdrawal of Soviet troops and cabled Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld asking for U.N. protection. Lindsay’s "what might have been” follows.

► U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge could have immediately asked for an emergency session of the General Assembly.

► The Assembly could have swiftly created a Hungarian observation commission.

► An advance commission composed of U.N.-member ambassadors in Vienna could have flown to Budapest by helicopter and been observing a full day before the massive Nov. 4 Soviet intervention.

► Anna Kethly, Nagy’s authorized representative, could have been installed as Hungary’s accredited U.N. spokesman.

The U.S. chose to refer the matter of Hungary over to the U.N. instead and the U.S. leadership

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