Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-10-01 / 10. szám

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FRATERNITY

MEMO TO THE HUNGÁRIÁN PÁTRIOTS

By JOSEPH AUSLANDER HEROES OF HUNGARY,

Alane, with naked fists and naked faith, for five Soul-sliattering days and nights you kept alive The passion to be free,

The fitful furious flame of liberty.

And when at last you fell You shook the citadel Of tyranny

Down to its uttermost base in hell —

And shook our hearts as well.

Even as your threadbare, blood-soaked banner hurled Its final scorn point-blank At Soviet tank on tank on tank A shudder shook the world.

Debate and condemn.

Condemn and debate;

But what about them?

Despair cannot wait While the Soviet horde,

With bullet and bomb,

With fire and sword Drives the hard: lesson home In the schoolboy impaled On the gates of the city,

In the madness that failed,

In the murder of pity,

In the flesh of defeat Spread-eagled in flame,

Dumped high in the street Without number or name.

But Stalin said it, Stalin said it plainly:

(In 19-16, to be exact)

The Magyar problem is a matter only For boxcars . . . Stalin said it .. . Chilimig fact. That was the way he spelled it out and read it — And good old Joe chuckled when he said it.