The Hungarian Student, 1958 (2. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1958 / 5. szám
2 The Hungarian Student Letter from the Editor A THOUSAND DOLLARS is not a very large sum. It is enough to pay for the transportation of two people to Europe, enough for a vacation, and barely enough to cover the monthly salary of a colonel. It takes many thousands of dollars to build a jet plane and it would have to be multiplied by two million to build a rocket to the moon. Not every one thousand dollars, however, is of the same value. There is the thousand dollars that is taken out of the safe where many more are resting and there is the thousand dollars which has had a life of its own, a history, and thus is worth more. There is the thousand dollars which is not worth the amount printed on it, but which is a symbol, incorporating the love from those who have deprived themselves in order to save the dollars and use for a noble purpose. The thousand dollars which the president of the Student Association gave to the World University Service, falls into the latter category. It was donated by students who have scholarships to those who have none. It was sent as an encouragement, a hope, and a message of solidarity and helpfulness. “I could cry in my helpless rage of being able to send so little,” wrote a student in his letter enclosing two dollars. And he added later, “The world should be ashamed of itself for not being able to give its youth security and a life free from want.” “I work part-time to earn a little money because my scholarship only covers tuition and now, like many others, I too, have lost my job. I don’t know what the future will bring but somehow I will overcome the difficulties, and I am enclosing my last three dollars for those, who are in greater need than I,” wrote another student. The one who collected these dollars and cents at the appeal of the American- Hungarian Student Association, can testify that it was not only money which was donated but true human sentiment, co-operation and love. The first one thousand dollars are only an expression, a visible symbol of that love and solidarity. When speaking of this, it is impossible not to remember the afternoon of a Fali day when the same sentiments, in the shape of red and green bills, were thrown into open wooden boxes in the streets of a bombed-out, scarred city. The pile of money grew and grew in the unattended boxes and each passer-by contributed something, even though there was no one there to see the offering, and no one there to prevent pilfering of the donations. These were the donations of a proud and happy country to the families of its fallen sons. These donations conveyed the message: “You will never be alone, you will never be abandoned, you will not be orphaned. We are sons for your sons, families for your families, you can count on us.” The disbelieving and the pessimists like to argue that these great days of harmony and enthusiasm are gone, that we have gone back into hopelessness, bleak days of hurting each other. To them these thousand dollars are proof that they are wrong. Through this gift a new youth comes, heralding the coming of a different future, a different society. Let the disbelieving consider these thousand dollars, which is only a two-millionth part of the expenses of a rocket to the moon, but still means the dawning of a new era. The Hungarian Student is an official monthly publication of the Association of Hungarian Students in the United States. Subscriptions are $5.00 a year for any person or organization. No fees are paid for published articles and all material for publication must be received by the 15th of the month prior to issue. Application for Second-Class Mail Privileges is pending at New York, New York. Editor-in-Chief: L. G. PAPP Managing Editor: A. B. NAGY Editorial Office: 22 East 38th Street, New York, 16, New York Business Office: Room 308, 44 Bromfield Street, Boston, Massachusetts Volume Two, Number Five May, 1958 FRAGMENTS . . . NEW YORK TIMES, April 3, 1058. “Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Hungarian people today that as long as they had the friendship of the Soviet Union there was nothing to fear from foreign enemies. It was Mr. Khrushchev’s first trip abroad since the demotion of Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, his former traveling companion. After the airport ceremonies Mr. Khrushchev and his companions drove into Budapest in a convoy of long black limousines. The route took them along the Üllői Ut, scene of the fiercest fighting in 1956, where reconstruction work has not been completed. The talks started this afternoon. A communiqué issued afterward divulged little more than the names of the participants. It said there had been an exchange of views on questions of interest in a ‘cordial and friendly atmosphere.’ ” * THE TABLET, March 22, 1958. “The Vatican’s excommunication of three priests for serving in the Hungarian Communist parliament will serve to strengthen both the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Hungary.” * NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, March 27, 1958. “In its latest note on a summit meeting, the Soviet Union reiterates that it seeks such a meeting to reach agreements on ‘pressing international problems . . . the settlement of which could lay the foundations for better mutual understanding among states.’ Such an agreement was reached between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in 1947. It is a treaty of peace with Hungary. It guarantees the following: ‘To secure to all persons.. . the enjoyment of human rights and of the fundamental freedoms including freedom of expression, of press and publication, of religious worship, of political opinion and of public meeting.’ ‘All Allied forces shall be withdrawn from Hungary.’ ” * NEW YORK TIMES, March 21, 1958. “Four Hungarian refugee students attending the Juilliard School of Music under the auspices of the World University will give a joint recital Monday. Patrons of the recital include Governor Harriman, Mayor Wagner, Senators Jacob K. Javíts, J. William Fulbright and John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adlai E. Stevenson and Dr. Ralph Bunche.” * NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, April 2, 1958. “Budapest newspapers said today Foreign Minister Endre Sik has announced that Hungary plans measures to better relations with the United States.”
