Passive resistance on the part of the Liberal Hungarians and Jews, in New York and other cities of the United States will mark the arrival on the Olympic today of the delegation of 572 Hungarians who come to participate in the unveiling of the monument to Louis Kossuth, Hungarian patriot, at Riverside , Drive and 113th Street, next Thursday afternoon. The Olympic is scheduled to dock between six and seven tonight.
Since the mass meeting of the Hatvany Defense Committee in the Hungarian Literary Society building No. 323 East 79th Street, last Friday night, the boycott declared on the monument unveiling exercises has spread and the Liberals have pledged to absent themselves from the event.
A delegation from the Hatvany Defense Committee called on Mayor Walker yesterday to say they are in no way connected with any Hungarian body that has threatened a hostile demonstration during the four-day stay of the delegation in New York.
They also presented a letter in which the Liberal Hungarians of the United States ask the Mayor to urge upon the leaders of the delegation the liberation of Baron Ludwig von Hatvany, who was recently sentenced to seven years imrisonment for his newspaper attacks on the Horthy regime. They pointed out that Hatvany is a disciple of Kossuth and that his motives were the same as those which actuated Kossuth–the freedom of Hungary.
The Kossuth delegation will be met down the bay by the Macon.
Samuel Untermyer, who is a member of the reception committee, is strongly criticised in “The Day” , for his reply to the Anti-Horthy, League, urging him to withdraw from the committee.
Mr., Untermyer is reported to have declared he will not withdraw form the committee since he believes that ” the attitude toward anti-Semitism in Hungary and elsewhere has nothing to do with the acceptance of an invitation to serve on a committee to welcome the delegation which comes to unveil a monument to such a great liberal as Louis Kossuth.”
Commenting upon this reply “The Day” declares: “It is strange how men who usually possess a great deal of courage and common sense lose both when they are called upon to act on a question of Jewish interest. Samuel Untermyer is one of these men. Mr. Untermyer’s reply is nothing more than the evasion of a clever lawyer who wants to get out of a bad case.
“What does it mean that the invitation to welcome the delegation has nothing to do with the character and political career of those who are to be welcomed? It has a great deal to do with it. Common sense would dictate that when one goes to welcome a man it is proof that one thinks greatly of him, that one is ready to give him a great measure of recognition and that one is willing to honor him.
“The purpose of the Horthy delegation to the United States is, indeed, to create a friendly, warm attitude toward the Horthy regime in Hungary. To the Horthy regime the unveiling of the Kossuth monument in New York is nothing but a pretext. The connection between the present reactionary Horthy regime and the Hungarian champion of liberty is so remote that, because of this alone, the delegation which is sent and supported by Horthy would not find it worth while to incur the expanses of a trip to America.
“In every similar case, Mr. Untermyer’s strongly developed political sense would have told him not to allow anybody to exploit him for low political purposes. Here, perhaps because the case has some connection with Jews, Mr. Untermyer failed. He permits his name and his prestige to be used to connect the present Horthy regime with the Hungarian champion of liberty, Kossuth, in the consciousness of the American people, thus giving a bill of health to the anti-Semitic, dark reaction which now reigns in Hungary.
“It is to be regretted. Had Mr. Untermyer given to the consideration of this semi-Jewish matter one part of the gigantic intellectual energy which he displays in his fight against the Interborough, he would never have been placed in such a false position,” the paper declares.
The recelpts of the United Jewish Campaign total more than $6,000,000, or over 75 per cent of the aggregate pledged, it was announced by David M. Bressler, Acting chairman of the New York campaign. More than $6,500,000 was pledged to the campaign in May, 1926, to be paid is three instalments.
The original New York quota was set at $4,000,000, but William Fox, before accepting the local chalrmanship, insisted on increasing the quota to $6,000,000, and the pledges exceeded that amount.
Brookiyn, in a separate campaign under the chairmanship of Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, with Hugh Grant Straus as treasurer, raised $1,000,000 as a part of the entire aum pledged. The Far Rockaway region, under the chairmanship of Leon Lauterstein, with Charles A. Jacobs as treasurer, also conducted its own campaign, raising $295,954, as against a quot of $150,000.
The second annual convention of the Texas Rabbis Associntion was opened on Monday in Beaumont. Texas, and will continue for three days. Rabbi Abraham Schechter of Houston is the founder and president, Rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dallos, vice president. and Rabbi Samuel Rosinger of Beaumont, secretary.
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