Új Magyar Út, 1955 (6. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1955-02-01 / 2-3. szám
SUMMARY GÉZA TELEKI (Charlottesville, Va.) is a former Minister of Education in Hungary and a professor of geology. He is also one of the editors of this review. Prof. Teleki’s writing on the “Political-Geographical Significance of Budapest” presents a brief but still comprehensive history of the Hungarian capital, from the Roman times when it was called Aquincum, through the middle and modern ages to the dreary present. Budapest was from the beginning a very important commercial center. It is a meeting point of the agriculture of the Hungarian Great Plains and the mining and industrial centers of Western and Northern Hungary. Budapest still occupies a keyposition on the map of Europe. The power that holds Budapest, can control Central Eastern Europe in its entirety. The Soviet Union is and has always been well aware of this fact; that explains why it is so anxious to stay in the Hungarian capital. We also present five pictures that show Budapest in various stages of its history. ❖ *• * EDMUND VASVÁRY (Washington, D. C.) has devoted a considerable time and effort to research on the American visit of Louis Kossuth. His article, “Lincoln and Kossuth” shows the parallel between the thinking of these two great men. The author found that Lincoln invited Kossuth to visit Springfield in 1852, but for some unknown reason he could not go. It has not been established whether the two men met each other, but it is very interesting to note the great similarity between Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address of 1863 and Kossuth’s address in Columbus, Ohio, twelve years earlier. Kossuth said: “The spirit of our age is democracy. All for the people and all by the people. Nothing about the people without the people: that is democracy, and that is the ruling tendency of the spirit of our age.” And Lincoln closed his address by these famous words: “ ... government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” * * * The IRON CURTAIN (by Ferenc Wágner, Washington, D. C.) features a survey of Moscow’s nationality policies, and reviews the military aspects of the recent conference of the Kremlin and its chief agents in the occupied countries. sjs % JENŐ BOR (Washington, D. C.) writes on the recently published memoires of Finland’s Marshal Mannerheim. Mannerheim was among those rare persons who could show a most fortunate synthesis of tradition and progressive mind, culture and executive ability, and patriotism and a great gift for diplomacy. — 125 —
