The Hungarian Student, 1957 (1. évfolyam, 2-8. szám)
1957 / 4. szám
6 The Hungarian Student ...FROM LETTERS OF GREET .... I recall with pleasure meeting some of you in Albany a few months ago—a group from Bard College— and it interests me greatly to learn that this group from one of our New York State colleges was a prime mover in forming your organization. You are to be congratulated on having already enrolled some 1,400 students. You Hungarian students with your knowledge and skills have a vital role to play in fighting communist oppression, and in helping to keep alive in the hearts of the heroic people of your homeland the spirit of freedom and democracy. You can hasten the day when the brave Hungarian people will enjoy their God-given rights to individual liberty and national independence, free at last from the strangling grasp of the Kremlin. I know your first Congress has been a great success, and your association has my every best wish for the future. Averell Harriman Governor of New York State “Pity then our people, Lord, shaken by disaster,” the people in front of Parliament sang on October 25, before the police began to fire. .... I appreciate what you had to say about the merits of the Walter- McCarran Act, under which almost 27,000 Hungarian refugees have been permitted to obtain asylum in this country. I am happy to note that you and your colleagues appreciate the generosity of the law which makes it possible to open the gates of freedom in our great Republic to truly deserving fighters against totalitarian oppression. I hope that all of you will join forces with us in our struggle against communism, and that the refugees who will become part and parcel of America will prove worthy of the hospitality extended to them by the United States. Sincerely yours, Francis E. Walter Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives The Congress and Hungarian Exhibition Announced. .... All Americans look forward to the day when captive people behind the Iron Curtain are restored to liberty. If peace is to reign in our lifetime, we must subscribe and follow a policy that is directed toward the liberation of the people and countries presently under the control of international Communism. Freedom is a greater force than tyranny and the day will come, in the not too distant future, when Hungary will be free of Soviet occupation and Hungarians will select their own government in place of the one imposed on them by Soviet bayonets and tanks___ Sincerely yours, William F. Knowland United States Senate The Events of October and November Chronicled. .... You are the chosen generation of a nation destined to be great. Your uprising, which caused the whole world to look in awe, took the lives of many thousands of your fellow sufferers. Tens of thousands of your friends are martyrs in Siberia. The plain fact is that today you stand on America’s free soil. This is definite proof that divine providence has decreed you to perform this duty. You are to take the eye-witnesses’ testimony to every center of American cultural life, so that all will understand that the hordes gathered together by the Bolshevik’s whip are preparing for the overthrow of the world, even if their preparations are hidden behind the slogan of peaceful co-existence. The social structure’s advantages are enjoyed by the drawing room Communists. Compare their pink terror with the terrible reality of the great numbers of your fellow students who were slaughtered. ... Laszlo Eszenyi The Hungarian Reformed Federation of America---- Please accept our best wishes to your future work for the cause of freedom and liberation of our countries from Communism. Our congratulations go to the newly elected officers of your organization. Sincerely yours, Jaroslav V. Zich President, National Union of Czechoslovak Students in Exile
