Fraternity-Testvériség, 1963 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1963-07-01 / 7. szám

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FRATERNITY

IMMIGRANTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED

A PLEASANT SURPRISE WILL GREET VISITORS TO THE 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR

National Minorities Will Be Allotted Prominent Exhibit Space In United States Federal Pavilion

For decades the American Hungarian Federation has striven to impress Washington officialdom with the importance of emphasizing the spiritual and material contributions of immigrants, who made the North American continent what it is today. Exactly this sentiment will reflect from the large mural showing the map of the United States at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, with its many regions populated by different nationalities and their main occupations. Above the impressive display there will shine the legend: IMMIGRANTS, WHO BUILT THE U. S. A.

Indefatigable, ever-young “Bob” Moses is in over-all charge of the feverish building activities on historic Flushing Meadow. There, between Manhattan and Jamaica, arise the exhibition buildings of the many foreign pavilions, as well as those in which large American concerns are to show their products and plans. Trade names of world renown, manufacturers of automobiles, photo cameras, communication and public utilities giants, all will be represented.

The United States Federal Pavilion will demonstrate the American way of life, the greatness and riches of this blessed land, its cultural and material wealth. All this will be artistically presented for those flocking to New York from afar and who may not have the opportunity to go further West and take a sampling of the many natural beauty

spots of these United States.

And something more will be exhibited for the first time. Though

it was known hitherto, it was not sufficiently emphasized that the

American people are indeed the greatest asset of the New World. A very high percentage of Americans hail from ever so many distant lands, immigrants who came of their own volition to find a home. From cities, towns and villages they came, and, living together with one another in peace, enjoying the basic human rights guaranteed by the Constitution, they prospered. Yes, this will be the very first World’s Fair to officially acknowledge, proudly admit — let the whole country, nay, all the world, see — it was the immigrants coming and settling here for centuries that made the U. S. A. big, strong and great.

In no small measure it is due to Congressman John Rooney of Brooklyn, New York, himself the son of immigrants, that those who began their American careers as strangers from another continent and toiled with the sweat of their brow, are to be granted this recognition. Congressman Rooney, Chairman of the Subcommittee for Appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice and the Judiciary, is indeed one of the most influential statesmen on Capitol Hill. He was the one who suggested to Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, as the responsible