In a statement, the Batthyány Circle of Professors called attention to peace and an early end to the Russian-Ukrainian war. The association led by Lajos Kollár stated: they are most strongly opposed to all actions that lead to the continuation and expansion of the war and a possible nuclear war.
In 1958, Nobel Prize-winning American writer John Steinbeck saw it necessary to collect his articles written as a war correspondent in 1943 in a book (Once There Was A War, Viking Press 1958). In his book "Once upon a time there was a war", also published in Hungarian (Európa Könyvkiadó, 1961), he commented on the war as follows:
“However, the war I am talking about deserves to be remembered because it was the last of its kind. Our little civil war was called the last "gentleman's war," and the so-called Second World War was certainly the last in a long line of wars covering the whole earth. The next one, if we are crazy enough to allow it, will be the last war of all. There is no one left behind who remembers anything. If we were that crazy, we wouldn't even deserve to survive, biologically speaking. Many other species have disappeared from the earth as a result of mutational errors. There is no reason to suppose that we are immune to the immutable law of nature that over-armament, over-indulgence and, in most cases, over-unification are symptoms of impending doom. In his novel A Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain lives with the terrifying and probable paradox that the victor is crushed to death by the weight of the vanquished dead."
In agreement with Steinbeck's words, and with the popular will expressed in the demonstrations that spread like wildfire around the world, the Batthyány Circle of Professors also wants peace and most strongly opposes all the actions that lead to the continuation of the war, its expansion and a possible nuclear war!
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