The Eighth Tribe, 1977 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-06-01 / 6. szám
Page 4 THE EIGHTH TRIBE June, 1977 In 1973/74 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and besides teaching there, he was lecturing at several other West German universities, and also in Hungary and Yugoslavia. Dr. Berty is a native of Budapest, Hungary where he received his diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1944, and the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1950, still before the degree system was changed. While in Hungary, he worked at the Hungarian Oil and Gas Research Institute, and also taught at the College of Chemical Engineering in Veszprém, Hungary. In 1956/57 he was a visiting professor in East Germany. He is the author of 23 scientific publications, one textbook and 16 patents. Dr. Berty is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, and the Society of Engineering Science. He is a Registered Professional Engineer, and also member and supporter of several Hungarian organizations. Dr. Berty and his wife, the former Gizella Rézeky, have six children. The four older children were born in Hungary, and all have finished college in the U.S.A. The fifth was born in Vienna, Austria, and she is a junior at State University of New York at Albany, and the youngest was born in the United States, and he is a sophomore at Mercyhurst Preparatory School in Erie, Pennsylvania. We can all be proud of Dr. Berty. A ☆ — ANNOUNCEMENT — THE HUNGARIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION invites you to its “TRIBUTE TO OUR ANCESTORS” dinner-dance, literature and art displays and bazaar. The event will be held at Howard Johnson’s, Monroeville, Pa. on Oct. 15, 1977. Bazaar and displays will be open from 4 p.m. Cash-bar and popular rock band from 6 p.m. Dinner and short program, (introducing the sponsoring Hungarian businesses and organizations) 7:30 p.m. Mickey’s orchestra from 10-2 a.m. Hungarian individuals, businessmen and organizations who wish to co-sponsor or participate in the event should write to: H. B. A. 7125 Saltsburg Rd. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235 HBA will make hotel reservations for guests from out of town. ON BEHALF OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIANS IN RUMANIA As United States citizens of Hungarian descent, we are deeply disturbed about the treatment given to the 2.8 million Hungarians in Transylvania by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. Though the Peace Treaties of 1947 as well as the very constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, and recently the Helsinki Agreement (Section 7) clearly define the rights of national minorities and minority churches, the Rumanian Government flagrantly violates these rights in an ever increasing degree. The discrimination against Hungarians in Rumania, in the fields of education, job, housing, welfare, the use of the mother tongue, administration, religious freedom and every other aspect of human existence is becoming more and more intolerable. In 1975 tbe Government of the United States bestowed upon the Socialist Republic of Rumania the “Preferred Nation Status” under the conditions that the Rumanian Government would remedy the grievances of the Hungarian and German minorities. In 1976 these favours were renewed in spite of strong opposition in Congress, after the Rumanian Government again promised to remedy the grievances. However, in the first months of 1977, the discrimination against the 2.8 million Hungarians in Transylvania, and the pressure on Hungarian churches have increased in such proportions that the term of “cultural and biological genocide” seems justified. Therefore we, as United States Citizens of Hungarian descent, implore the Congress and the Government of the United States to suspend the “mostfavored-nation” status granted to Rumania, until the government of that country fulfills the conditions under which this status was granted, by recognizing and implementing the rights of the minorities as laid down in the peace Treaties of 1947, in the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, and Section 7 of tbe Helsinki Agreement. Documented material on the abuses, harassments and discriminations inflicted on the Hungarians in Transylvania by the Rumanian Government is available. —To order the book, “Transylvania: The Hungarian Minority In Rumania”, see back page.
