English Translation

42L72 Rozlas 10.III. 1939. 7.00 The management of the state must be carried in both the central government and the autonomous governments always by the same and absolutely unambiguous spirit of legality, the care of the interests of the State and the unwarranted loyalty of the government and its constitutional order. This order , supplemented by laws on the autonomy of the Slovak Landscape and the Podkarpatian Ukraine , sets out as a fundamental principle the state unity and integrality of all autonomous units whose cohesion cannot and must not be weakened. That is why the oldest representative of Slovak legislators, a man who, from the revolutionary period of the National Assembly until today, was a permanent member of the Czechoslovak Parliament, Senator Josef Buday, considered it necessary to highlight the idea of reciprocity at the opening of the Slovak Assembly. This native Slovak, whose pre-tipping Slovak past is above all crap, said that the idea of Slovak reciprocity arose in the Slovak nation. Its most prominent promoter was Slovák Ján Kollár. It is not disowned - said Senator Dr. Buday - nor this tradition of ours. We want to grow it with all Slavic nations, but above all with the Slavonic brothers with whom we form one state, one republic - with the brothers of Bohemia and Ukrainians. I know, the speaker said that when true Slavish mutuality will rise and the mistakes and misunderstandings of the past will be eliminated, our republic will become stronger. Yes, we are all concerned - both the Czechs and the Slovaks - that our republic should understand and its laws should not be downplayed and that its unity was not put in the slightest doubt. However, we have recently witnessed appearances that could not be considered healthy. From the mouths of some actors in Slovakia, claims have spread that threatened the idea of cohesion of all the autonomous countries of our state. The unfair elements also worked against the Slovak auto-nomy law. This aroused a general surprise, which especially increased because some of the parties of the Slovak government could not be seen.