English Translation

64 Copies . The Aécho-Slovak constitutional law on Slovakia's autonony, which concluded agreements of the Slovak parties and the Pittsburgh agreement, from which the Slovaks' claim to autonomy is derived, on 6 October in Zilina, and accepted by the central government, emphasises that Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia form a single federal state. Recently, in Slovakia, Professor Bela Tuka and the head of propaganda of the Slovak government Sano Mach, who relied on some unfair elements and exploited the undecided weakness of the chairman of the government, Dr Josef Tiso, and some other ministers. In recent days, the propaganda against the unity of the Cecho-Slovak State has reached such an intensity that the central government and the President of the Republic considered it necessary to intervene in the interests of asserting the spirit of constitutional laws on the autcnomy of the Lendes Slovakia. In addition, the unrest caused by the weakness of the country's government increased in Slovakia. That is why the President of the Republic on the Donnersäg evening dismissed Minister Dr. Josef Tiso, the former Chairman of the Slovak Government, Dr.M.Pruéinsky, Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr Ferdinand Durdansky, Minister of Transport and Dr. M.Vando, Minister in Justice, from office. The remaining two ministers remained in the Slovak government. Mr Josef Sivák, former Deputy Chairman of the Government, became President of the government, while Minister Pavel Teplansky continued to hold the Ministry of Finance. These changes in the Slovak government did not affect the central government, whose member is the Slovak deputy to the chairman of the Beran government, Minister of Steats Karol Sidor. Nor did any changes occur in the joint departments in the office of Slovak delegates. These measures of the President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic are aimed solely at preventing the violation of the Czechoslovakian unity and to consolidate the peace and order. Neither the autonomy of Slovakia, nor the Zilina Agreement, are affected. At Prague's administrative offices, the unshakable will of the central government to continue the autonomous Slovak self-government -2-