Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1940-11-28
ANIERlKAI MAGYAR HIRLAP
DON'T BLAME HUNGARY!

Szalasi, the nazi leader had to be re-
leased from prison, the government had
to clamp down on the jews, and it is only
question of short time when Hungary's
government will be completely nazified
Regent Horthy may resign, or he may
permit his government to completely sub
NIT and take orders from Ribbentrop, but
Hungary's complete Modification is in
evitable.
And what of the feelings of Hungary
and the Hungarians?
They are certainly not happy in the
new situation.
The Fifth Column" of Hungary is
composed mostly of the landless gentry
and the middle class, both impoverished
by the insane Trianon treaty.
They are casting eager and longing eyes
on the wealth and the positions held by
Hungary's intensely patriotic and almost
completely assimilated jews, soon to be
divested not only of their wealth but also
of their jobs and positions; and they
preach complete unity with the Reich,
even the abandonment of Hungary's
thousand-year old independence
The landed aristocracy will not
care much. Hungary's industrial develop
ment has tended to increase the demands
and the wages of the landless Hungarian
peasant. In late years the government had
to promise far-reaching land reform, at
the expenses of the landed aristocracy and
the clergy.
With complete German domination
Hungary will be divested of it's industries,
her industrial laborers will be forced back
to seek work on the great estates, labor
will be plenty and cheap, and the nazi
program will not permit land reforms. Qn
Germany large estates were not distri-
buted by the nazis, for machine production
is the order of the day, and the long
promised Hungarian land reform will be
postponed once more indefinitely. Except
for the negligible land owned by jews.
This is now being distributed amongst
the - gentry)
But the Hungarian masses, the peas
ant and the workers can not help but
dread the NEW ORDER.
They know that Hungary will be des-
industrialized, they know that Hungarian
crop will have to be exchanged for useless
knick-knacks and they know that Hitler's
"My Kampf" and the whole behavior of
the Germans call for "Herren Folks" and
servant folks. And the Herren Folks will
be the Germans.
They know that Hungarian standards
will have to be lowered for the benefit of
the ruling race, and they know that Hun
garys independence will vanish for long
time to come.
They love Admiral Horthy instinctively,
not because he was wise and constitu
tional ruler, which he is, but because
they know that but for Horthy Hungary
would have been sold by the Hungarian
nazis years ago. He was the stumbling block
of hitlerism and Hitler in Hungary, but
World-events proved stronger than the will
of one strong man.
And now the inevitable has happened.
Hungary is bound to the bloody
chariot Of the victorious Axis, and Hun
garians may be even ordered to make war
on their warm and sincere friends, the
Turks and England.
And in the meantime - the large ma
jority of the Hungarians (of Hungary, too)
have but one wish.
The annihilation of Hitler and all that
he stands for, and the dismemberment of
the present German Reich
For some Hungarians are the paid
servants of Hitler, some can not forget
Trianon and the dismemberment and are
sincere friends of the "liberator" dictators,
but the vast majority knows that Hun
gary's only hope lays in the defeat and dis
memberment of Germay.
Unless Hungary will have free access
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