English Translation

6.8 Absohrift. u§ CPB P r a & , lo March . The Cecho-Slovak constitutional law on the autonomy of Slovakia, which was signed in Zilina on 6 October last and accepted by the central government of the Slovak parties, and the Pittsburg Agreement, from which the claim of the Slovakians suf autonomy is derived, stress 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 agenda against the unity of the Cecho-Slovak State reached such an intensity that the central government and the Preaident of the Republic considered it necessary to intervene in the interests of asserting the spirit of constitutional laws on the autonomy of the country of Slovakia. Moreover, in Slovakia, the unrest caused by the visions of the government of the Lende, the president of the Republic on the Donnersäg evening dismissed Minister Dr.dosef Tiso, the former chairman of the Slovak government, Dr.M.Pruzinsky, Minister of Economics, Dr Ferdinand Duransky, Minister for Transport and Public Works, and the two remaining Minieters 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 dee chairman of the government of Beran, state eminiate Karol Sidor. Nor did any changes occur in the joint departments in the office of the Slovak delegates. These measures of the President of the Republic of Cecho-Slovakia are aimed solely at preventing a violation of the Czechoslovak unity and to consolidate peace and order, neither at the autonomy of Slovakia, nor at the Zilina Convention.