English Translation

-3- since l9l8 led his struggle for the equality of the Slovaks as a nation for itself, not to mention just another example, that his co-worker Tuka l929 was thrown into the dungeon after a sham trial. Thus, a common realization, which was not reality-blind to all, was formed that the Czecho-Slovak state in its construction was paralyzed, was sick from the root and therefore suffering from a fundamental state crisis. In the political vocabulary recurring formulations such as the Czechoslovakia "the source of Europe's unrest", or the "guepiér de 1' Europe centrale" ("the Velpannest of Central Europe") express this insight in an accommodative way. This state crisis was, as I have said, justified in the composition of the state, in the disparate interests and tendencies of its many traditions going along with them