S.J. MAGYARÓDY Hungary and the Hungarians MATTHIAS CORVINUS PUBLISHERS Editor: Szabolcs J. Magyarody Principal translators: Péter Csermely, István Hegedűs Dr. Csaba Horváth, Judit Jókay Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-882785-23-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947893 All expenses were contributed by North-American Hungarians No governments or government supported organizations contributed a single penny to the publication of this book and CD 2 CONTENTS FOREWORD ................................................................................................ 5 WHO ARE WE? ........................................................................................... 7 C. A. Macartney D. Litt. HUNGARY – A SHORT HISTORY * .................... 9 Fritz-Konrad Krüger HUNGARY AND WORLD WAR I. .......................... 18 László Gulyás A SHORT HISTORY OF THE TREATY OF TRIANON ..... 26 Yves De Daruvar THE TRAGIC FATE OF HUNGARY ............................ 33 John Flournoy Montgomery OPINION OF AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT 38 J. F. Montgomery HUNGARIAN DECLARATION OF WAR ..................... 42 S.J. Magyaródy THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN SYNDROME .................... 47 RECOVERY OF LOST TERRITORIES ...................................................... 50 Dr. Edward Chászár THE FIRST VIENNA AWARD ................................. 52 RETAKING SUBCARPATHIA ................................................................... 54 THE SECOND VIENNA AWARD .............................................................. 56 TERRITORY CEDED BY ROUMANIA ..................................................... 57 RETURNED TO HUNGARY ...................................................................... 57 THE RETAKING OF THE SOUTHERN TERRITORIES .......................... 59 S. J. Magyaródy GUILTY NATION? .......................................................... 61 John Flournoy Montgomery US ENVOY TO HUNGARY .......................... 69 Károly Kapronczay REFUGEES IN HUNGARY ....................................... 78 István Hegedűs THE ROLE OF HUNGARY IN THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE ........................ 89 András /Andrew/ Fejérdy THE STALINGRAD OF THE SOVIET UNION .................................................................... 94 Steven Hayward THE BERLIN WALL TEN YEARS LATER .................... 96 Albert Camus THE BLOOD OF THE HUNGARIANS .............................. 99 Zoltán Balassa SlovaK HistorY ........................................................103 Józsa Hévizi THE SITUATION OF ETHNIC MAGYARS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND LATER SLOVAKIA ........................... 108 S.J. Magyaródy HUNGARIANS – SLOVAKS ...........................................123 André Du Nay The OriGin OF the Romanians ..........................127 Árpád Szőczi ROMANIAN FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY ....................132 ROMANIAN ATROCITIES .......................................................................134 3 Valentin Stan SZEKLERLAND AND THE SZEKLERS ............................155 Major General Harry Hill Bandholtz / Footnotes by Fritz-Konrad Krüger AN UNDIPLOMATIC DIARY .............................................................158 Lajos Kazar FACTS AGAINST FICTION ..................................................172 Péter Miklós SERBS IN HUNGARY .........................................................176 JUSTICE FOR THE TEMERIN FIVE! .................................................... 180 Atilla S. Délvidéki CHAPTERS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE SERB RAIDS ........................................................................182 AUTONOMY .............................................................................................187 SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY ................. 189 Steve Béla Várdy ETHNIC CLEANSINGS OF HUNGARIANS ................199 AFTER THE TWO WORLD WARS ...........................................................199 Nándor Dreisziger When DID HunGarians Settle in their PresentHomelanD? ...................................................................212 Hungary’s history 895-1945 ......................................................................219 Ferenc Szávai THE LATE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY (1867-1918) ..................................................................247 Magdolna Csath ROBBER-PRIVATIZATION IN HUNGARY ...................255 Sándor Balog WHY AND HOW TO LEARN AND SPEAK HUNGARIAN? ............................................................. 262 Adam Makkai SOME OF THE BETTER KNOWN HUNGARIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION .................................... 269 László Jambor HUNGARIAN MUSIC ......................................................277 HUNGARIAN FINE ARTS ....................................................................... 282 SCULPTURE ........................................................................................... 287 ISTVÁN SISA ............................................................................................ 290 SPIRIT OF HUNGARY A NATION OF CHAMPIONS ........................... 290 HunGarian Achievements anD Inventions...................... 294 Mária Kovács HISTORY OF HUNGARIAN AVIATION .......................... 296 INTERESTING FACTS ............................................................................. 301 BUDAPEST .............................................................................................. 303 LIST OF AUTHORS ................................................................................. 304 4 FOREWORD Ever since the punitive terms of the Trianon Peace Treaty of 1920, following WWI, the Hungarian governments were never free to express the true feelings and wishes of the Hungarian nation. First of all, the overwhelming military and economic strength of the so called Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) and their sponsors (Great Britain and France) made it impossible for the Hungarian government to effectively and openly represent the interest of the nation. Subsequent to Hitler’s Third Reich, and for almost half of a century, the Soviet Union oppressed any sign of the expression of national in- terest, including putting down the only large scale armed uprising against the Soviet Union by the people of Hungary in 1956. Today, the situation is not much better. The only difference is that the tragic financial situation is forcing a muzzle on the government, instead of the force of arms. Hungary is not lacking enemies. Very few nations receive such bad press in the world like Hungary. The liberal media is attacking the government for enacting laws that most of the other European nations have. The best example is the case of the new constitution. Most Western media mounted a full scale attack on it a day before the English text of the proposed law was released. Obviously, the attack was orchestrated by some Hungarian liberals, and the western media adopted the hateful text without checking the validity of the accusations. Unfortunately, during the centuries, Hungarians never truly recognized the impor- tance of propaganda. Therefore, our enemies were free to wage hateful propaganda warfare all over the world, without the Hungarians blinking an eye. Owing to this re- lentless activity, the Romanians were successful in saturating the entire Western world with the „Daco-Roman continuity in Transylvania” fairytale. The Slovaks are also in the process of creating a history for themselves by usurping and borrowing from Hun- garian history, including Magyar kings, coat-of-arms, erasing the Hungarian past of the occupied Hungarians cities, including Pozsony, the long time capital of Hungary. This historical city was known as Pozsony, Pressburg, Posonium, but never by its present name of „Bratislava.” But more of it in the book… We, the publishers and writers of this book, are not connected financially to any Hungarian government or their agencies. Therefore, we are free to present the history and interest of this nation without any regard to its government. We are wholly financed 5 by the small contributions of the Hungarian-born citizens of the United States and Canada. Not one of our staff writers, contributors and translators receives any compen- sations or pay. All are volunteers. We are strictly presenting the truth and nothing but the truth. We are painfully aware of the fact that our enemies would latch onto even a single error or half-truth and, enlarging on it, would destroy the credibility of the rest of the work. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 26, 2012 SZABOLCS J. MAGYARÓDY 6 WHO ARE WE? We do not know exactly but one thing is certain: we are a mixed race, as are most Europeans. According to scientists, racially pure ethnic groups do not exist. It is merely a matter of determining which group merged with who and when and under what circumstances. It is enough to cite the example of the Germans. The Bavarians, who most probably assimilated some Avars, are simply not the same as the Prussians, who are related to the Slavs. And let us not even speak of the French, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese or the Greeks. If we read the publications of the Hungarian Academy of Science, we are Finno- Ugric. Our languages do bear some slight resemblance but, genetically, we are not re- lated. The Finns noted this and re-wrote their history books. According to them, we are not relatives, but good friends. This is not a handicap as a good, reliable friendship is worth more than a poor family relationship. The two languages differ so much from each other that we cannot recognize one