Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1960-04-01 / 4. szám
FRATERNITY 3 AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS IN HUNGARY DECLARATION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS (As was published in The New York Times — March 31, I960) We, the undersigned, fully recognizing the great responsibility incumbent upon us in this age when man has the means of total destruction, solemnly declare our intention to serve the most important cause, the preservation of peace. We agree that all efforts must be directed to that end and every possibility must be employed to ameliorate those problems which result in the present dangerous world tensions. To attain the desired goal all nations must show evidence of their good faith. We firmly believe that one of the disturbing elements in the effort toward mutual understanding is the fate of those Hungarians who participated in the revolt of 1956. If there is a spirit which radiates understanding and foregiveness, we think that those Hungarian political prisoners, regardless of their age and sentences, must be forgiven, too. Therefore, we are appealing to the understanding and consideration of the Communist leaders to grant an amnesty to Hungarian political prisoners, gratifying those throughout the world who are yearning for peace and justice. We hope that the Communist leaders will recognize their own responsibilities in connection with our demand and they will act according to their conscience, and with humanity. Done in the month of March, 1960, in the United States of America Conrad Aiken, Andreas Alföldi, Eugene Barnothy, Magdolna Barnothy, Charles E. Bennett, Alvin M. Bentley, P. W. Bridgman, Clifford P. Case, Leo Cherne, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Richard J. Daley, Thomas J. Dodd, Mark van Doren, Christopher Dawson, Ralph Ellison, Paul Fejős, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Israel Goldstein, Oscar Halecki, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Rt. Rev. Henry W. Hobson, William E. Hocking, Sidney Hook, Theodore de Karman, Kenneth B. Keating, Frank Lausche, Ashley Montagu, Marianne Moore, Rev. Thomas Merton, R. J. McCracken, John W. McCormack, Lewis Mumford, Charles Munch, Ernest Nagel, Katherine Anna Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Budd Schulberg, George N. Shuster, Upton Sinclair, Albert Szentgyorgyi, Joseph Szigeti, Norman Thomas, Charles de Tolnay, Eugene P. Wigner, Thornton Wilder, G. Mennen Williams, Alex Wolsky, Lajos Zilahy “Action Committee” AMNESTY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS IN HUNGARY 125 East 72nd Street — New York 21, N. Y.
