Fraternity-Testvériség, 1970 (48. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1970-07-01 / 7-9. szám
BE RESOLVED — then, when a new dispensation will give service to the cause of justice. My brothers and sisters! Apart from God we have no friend! My brothers and sisters, there are none to befriend us! Here, in Pittsburgh, a nation that stood for a thousand years was dismembered; a people was sentenced to death. Who spoke up in our behalf? In behalf of Israel in one day 73 Senators in the nation’s Capital sign a demand that Israel be given now—immediately—arms, planes, everything! In the Freedom Fight of ’56 we Hungarians were left in the lurch. Who felt pain for it? Tens of thousands died; hundreds of thousands were dragged off to Russia. By the time they reached Romania, already they were lying frozen in great numbers in the freight-cars. Who felt pain for it? And the best flowering of the homeland were scattered through the world; the elite of the nation were driven to the far corners. Who felt pain for it? Shame tinges my cheeks; but I tell it always and to all, and I have told them too who are in the highest places: AMERICA GAVE THE HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS USED CLOTHING—AND BANDAGES! The Russians gave tanks and crushed the freedom of the Hungarian people. Do we have friends? Can we still place reliance in anyone, in aught else, but God? In whom apart from Him can we trust? In whom can our Hungarian kindred living in bondage place confidence? In us, next after God; in us Hungarians who dwell in a free land! Therefore it is for us to strive for the reparation of the injustice of Trianon! We have no right—no one has the right! — to give away one foothold of Saint Stephen’s thousand-year domain: of that soil that has been Magyar for -a millennium! With whom shall we negotiate? Shall we sit with the Czechs, and ask them to restore to us this or that many million Hungarians? With whom shall we confer? Apply the selfsame reflection to Jugoslavia. With whom shall we treat? Apply the selfsame reflection to Romania. With whom shall we come to terms? Who will talk with us on this question? Who will welcome us on this ground? Who understands our anguish on YUGOSLAVIA this ground? Who understands that what God created a unit is a unitary land, a unitary nation? "No wish have we to hold another’s land:” —I make avowal with the poet— "We only seek to have what was our own!” Justice! Justice! Justice for Hungary! In my firm conviction our stand is such, that there is no other course. Our position is, that what was ours must remain ours—in the unity in which God created it! The whole, the single, the free and independent Hungary is what we want! This is our irreducible position! It is quite possible that this firm', straightforward speech will not please everyone: in our ranks also are fellow travelers who would "build bridges”; again there are those, here outside, and even more so in the homeland, who are indisposed to do anything of benefit for the millions of Hungarians suffering under an alien yoke. This is our vocation: to strive with firm resolve for the resurrection of Hungary! To this end let us win the understanding of everyone we know and with whom we work. It is our obligation to enlighten all regarding the injury inflicted on the Hungarians. Let us gain them to the cause of the Hungarian Question. This is of more worth than to undertake vain negotiations with our enemies regarding the domain of Saint Stephen. 19
