Lipták Béla levele a New York Times szerkesztőségéhez, a Dalai Lámával 1957-ben, Bostonban tett személyes találkozásáról, Tibet és 1956-os Magyarország sorsát összevetve. Részlet a Magyar Lobbi 2004. augusztus 20-i akció köréből.

Letters@nytimes.com — RE: Dalai Lama

To The Editor,

In 1957, I was working in the little room, which the National Student Association gave us on Mt. Auburn Street in Boston to organize the Hungarian refugee students, when I heard the knocking on the door. It was a deeply bowing, brown-robed priest with his hands clasped in prayer. He said: “I congratulate you on your victory.”

Tears came to my eyes, when I heard him talk about victory at a time, when Hungary’s freedom had been sold by a cynical West in exchange for the Soviets permitting them to occupy the Suez Canal. Seeing my tears he continued: “You have mortally wounded Communism! Don’t worry. In the long run, justice always prevails!”

Today, that 20-year-old student is a grandfather, who just read the news that Tibet’s freedom and right to autonomy has been sold by the cynical West in exchange for the Chinese permitting big business to profit from their slave labor. So, it is time for me to remind that deeply bowing priest, the Dalai Lama, of his words: “Don’t worry. In the long run, justice always prevails!”

Béla Lipták
Author of “A Testament of Revolution”
8-15-04, Stamford, CT

Forrás: Magyar Lobbi, 2004. augusztus 20.