Református ujság - Fraternity-Testvériség, 1940 (18. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1940-11-01 / 11. szám

TESTVÉRISÉG

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HÉV GENERATION

UJI1EI1ZEDEK

MiMMSI

“WHAT ABOUT HUNGARY?”

Hardly a day passes, that some of my American friends ask me:

’’What about Hungary?”

’’Why is Hungary permitting passage of German troops?”

”Is Hungary a Nazi country?”

It is very likely that the same questions are asked of you in the mill, plant or office where you are working. It is probable that you of the second generation may not know the reasons Why.

So here I recite the answers I give to these questions.

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Hungary is a country with more than a 1,000 yeor record of trying to be independent and free. The 1,000 years of Hungarian history is resplended with acts of heroism. The Hungarians fought Tartars, Turks to save the civilization of Western Europe. They fought the Germans and Austrians over centuries to protect their liberty and to maintain independence.

The last World War was not Hungary's making. The nation fought on the side of the Germans because it had treaty obligations and Hungary never broke its given word or welched on its signature on a document.

After the World War Hungary was the goat. The geographically cohesive country was broken into parts. Greedy neighbors fostered by France’s desire to create a wall around Germany grabbed two-thirds of her ancient lands and half her population.

Ever since Trianon Treaty the Hungarians suffering under foreign rule in their own native land strove for one thing — peaceful revision of

the Treaty of Trianon.

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This is the answer to the first question and it partly explains the second.

Under the Trianon treaty Hungary was not permitted to have more than 30,000 men in her army, she could not have aeroplanes nor heavy artillery. The country robbed of the natural defenses of the Carpathian mountains, was practically defenseless otherwise.

Germany on the other hand re-armed. Germany took Czecho-Slovakia and Austria. Germany with her mighty army became a next door neighbor of defenseless Hungary.

Germany took Poland and became a neighbor of Hungary on the North.

With German armies to the West, Northwest and North of her how could Hungary, just starting to rebuild her arm and mechanize it mostly with obsolete equipment, deny the German demand to transport troops through her territory?

Any fair minded man can see that with the fate of Norway, Holland and Belgium before her eyes Hungary could do nothing else but grit her teeth and acquiesce.

To resists would have been suicide.

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Nothing is more abhorent to the freedom and liberty loving Hungarian nation as Naziism and what it stands for. It is true that there are a few Hungarian Nazis bought with German money to spread the propaganda of totalitarianism. It is also true that part of Hungary’s comparatively small German population was listening to the voice of the Fatherland, although they (the German colonists in Hungary) are all well to do and would hate to give up their lands and properties to return to Germany.

The true Magyar, however, never trusted the Germans and even now, even with German armies at her borders Hungary is supressing Nazi plots and putting the offenders where they belong — in jail.

Hungary is the only parliamentary country left in continental Europe. It is the only country governed on a constitutional basis. A constitution which is as old as the Magna Charta of Great Britain.

Youngstown, O. (N. E.)

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HORTHY EGYETEM SZEGEDEN

A magyar parlament a kolozsvári tudományegyetem újbóli felállításáról intézkedik, mely szerint az 1872-ben Kolozsvárott felállított és 192-ben ideiglenesen Szegedre áthelyezett M. Kir. Ferenc József Tudományegyetem működését az 1940-41. tanévtől kezdve újból Kolozsvárott folytatja. Szegeden pedig Magyarország kormányzójának nevét viselő tudományegyetemet fognak felállítani, négy fakultással és gondoskodni a középiskolai tanárképzés és a gyógyszerészképzés megszervezéséről is.