April 06, 2019 Saturday
Bedtime Story
Kemeny's Father Understood the Implications of the Gathering Dark Clouds
Tonight we shall continue with Regent
Horthy’s letter to his Prime Minister Count Pal Teleki:
“I have considered it intolerable that here
in Hungary, everything, every factory, bank, large fortune, business, theatre,
press, commerce etc. should be in Jewish hands, and that the Jew should be the
image reflected of Hungary, especially abroad (this part of his letter had been
quoted earlier in one of the previous bedtime stories of this series).
Since, however, one of the most important tasks
of the government is to raise the standards of living, i.e., we have to acquire
wealth, it is impossible, in a year or two, to replace the Jews, who have
everything in their hands, and to replace them with incompetent, unworthy,
mostly big-mouthed elements, for we should become bankrupt.
This requires a generation at least.”
Quite surprisingly, and perhaps little
ironically, Regent Horthy in his correspondence with his Prime Minister was
accepting the intellectual superiority of the race that he so much despised much
like the general population.
John Kemeny’s father had the foresight to
understand that the matters would not end with legislative enactments and what
lay ahead was far more ominous and dangerous (not every Jew could sense this
danger).
He could comprehend that passing of these
anti-Jewish laws by the regent and the prime minister were just like thick dark
clouds which were the harbinger of the storm of death and destruction that
would be unleashed upon one particular group of apes for no justifiable and
legitimate reason (enacting laws that defy basic tenets of human dignity and
equality does not make these actions any more legitimate than a murderer who
would take the defense of committing his act for the sake of safeguarding his
wealth).
In the nick of time in 1940 the father of
John Kemeny managed to get his wife and children out of Hungary to the safety
of the United States where they settled down in New York City.
Till 1940 only series of discriminatory and
anti-Jewish laws were being passed out by the government of Regent Horthy and
Prime Minister Pal Teleki.
It had let to the mass economic deprivement
of Jews in Hungary.
The Prime Minister Teleki was as much an anti-Semitic
as was his superior Regent Horthy and has been described as “one of the most consistently
unaccommodating anti-Semitic politicians of the post-Trianon period.”
His attitude towards his own fellow Jews was
neither uniform nor consistent towards Jews as was the case with the Hungarian
masses overall.
As I had told you earlier the Jews were
very well integrated with the main Hungarian society by the end of the World
War I and during the times of Austro-Hungarian Empire the Hungarian Jews were
even rated as “fiercely patriotic”.
The very fact that the leaders in the Communist
Revolution of Hungary of 1919 were largely Jews (and of other non-Hungarian ethnicities)
and that the Jews were so well placed both economically and socially in the
Hungarian society is a testimony to this fact.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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