Charles Andras

* Felsőlászlófalva, 20 Aug. 1917 – † Munich, 9 Jul. 2004 / journalist, newspaper editor, political scientist. ; ; He graduated from high school in Košice, majoring in Hungarian-French-Slavic studies. He completed his studies in Prague and Bp. between 1938 and 1941, and his political science studies in New York between 1953 and 1955. He was the managing editor of Új Élet from 1939 to 1944. He began his editorial work as a university student – similar to Elemér Rády and Ferenc Sinkó – and maintained the excellent standard of the newspaper from the beginning. Former famous members of the Sarlós (László Dobossy and László Vass, who was involved in many different fields: political, literary and theatrical writings), also became his colleagues, and among the old Prohászká members, Sándor Vájlok and Ferenc Sinkó were the most active. The name of Kálmán Janics also appeared in Új Élet. In 1945, A. emigrated, lived in Austria until 1951, in the USA from 1951 to 1956, and settled in Munich in 1957. From 1951, he worked at Radio Free Europe, from 1957 he was the deputy head of its Hungarian department, and from 1966 he was the deputy director of the central research department. He mainly dealt with East-West relations, Central European and minority problems. ; – His publishing activity developed in Új Élet, his writings written during his emigration were published in the Roman Catholic Review, the Munich Új Látóhatár, various professional journals and collected volumes. Since 1990, he has been publishing in the Region of Mo. and in our Remény. His memorable journal publications: The Canons of Košice (Miklós Pfeiffer's career, Új Látóhatár 1979/5–6, reprint: Remény 1991/3–10), Beneš in Moscow (Új Látóhatár 1985/3–4), The Church Life of Hungarian Minorities (Regio 1991/3). He is continuously engaged in Beneš research. ; ; Works: Hungarian Minority, Slovak Majority. = Thirty Years 1956–1986, Bern 1986, National Identity. = Anthology of Western Hungarian Essayists (ed. Gyula Borbándi), Bern 1986. ;

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