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M. American Committee of the New Democratic Hungary Movement,
also known as Committee for a New Democratic Hungary
The other, the American Committee of the New Democratic Hungary
Movement, also known as the Committee for a New Democratic Hungary, was
formed in New York in the Fall of 1941 in opposition to the Movement for
an Independent Hungary of Tibor Eckhardt. Its chief sponsor was the late
Rustem Vambery, former Hungarian legal expert, aided by Jaszi. Other
leaders were John Terebessy, son of a Slovakian Judge; Paul Keri, Press
Bureau Chief under Karolyi; and Ignac Schultz, former member of the
Czechoslovakian Parliament. Keri and Laszlo Fenyes, also active in the
Committee, were co-defendants in a murder trial for the shooting of
Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Tisza, during the 1918 revolution. Keri
was convicted but his release was later arranged by the Soviet Union.
Until 1946 Vambery and Schultz published a small weekly paper
"Harc" (Fight) for the group. Sporadic meetings in New York were its only
other activity. It never received substantial support or exercised
appreciable influence. The Communists who left it to form the Hungarian
American Council for Democracy continued to give it favorable publicity.
It also received aid from the Czechoslovakian Government in Exile in
return for its advocacy of zechoslovakian integrity It virtually col-
lapsed upon the return of Vambery to Hungary and his entry into its
diplomatic service.
N. Transylvanian Society, also known as
American-Transylvaniar Federation
This society arose after World War I as a result of the Treaty
of Trianon, which took Transylvania from Hungary and made it part of
Rumania. A large number of Transylvanians felt that since the territory
contained both Rumanians and Hungarians in spite of its long history of
Hungarian culture and rule, it should be made an independent unit. Branches
were established in several United States cities, but soon became dormant.
In 1940 Hitler decreed a division of Transylvania between Hungary
and Rumania. Then with the close of World War II, the entire area was
returned to Rumania. In the Spring of 1945 a group of Transylvanian descent
reorganized the Federation and met in New York to prepare a petition for
the United Nations Conference in San Francisco again urging independence
for Transylvania. Leaders were Reverend Benedek Biro, of the Roman Catholic
Hungarian Church in Fairfield, Connecticut and Reverend Anthony (Antal)
Peter of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Present
HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY
- eso
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