Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1960-12-01 / 12. szám

FRATERNITY

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA

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Volume XXXVIII DECEMBER I960 Number 12

KENNEDY STATEMENT ON HUNGARY

Senator John F. Kennedy during his election campaign sent the following telegram to meetings arranged by Hungarian organizations in several cities, in observance of the 4th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of 1956:

“October 23, 1956, is a day that will forever live in the annals of free men and free nations.

“It was a day of courage, conscience and triumph. No other day since history began has shown more clearly the eternal unquenchability of man's desire to be free, whatever the odds against success, whatever the sacrifice required.

“Americans will never — at any summit meeting, in any treaty declaration, in words or even in our minds — recognize Soviet domination of Hungary. Hungary's claim to independence and liberty is not based on sentiment or politics. It is deeply rooted in history, in culture and in law. No matter what pressures the Soviet may exert, no matter what sort of puppet government they may maintain, we do not mean to see that claim abandoned.

“Americans intend to hasten by every honorable and reasonable means the arrival of the day when the men and women of Hungary will stand again in freedom and justice.

“On this anniversary we must, with Abraham Lincoln, ‘here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . . it is for us the living ... to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they so nobly advanced.'

“JOHN F. KENNEDY"