English Translation

61a - 26 - seems to have enough courage on the Slovak side to take a similar step, although in New York the Slovaks there were already busy working with the Czechs for the common goal. Tvrzický then turned to the Slovak League soon after the well-known memorandum, of which A.Mamatey writes in the October number of the "Journal of Race Development", where the complete resistance of the Slovaks against Hungary is made aware, but where of their relationship against the Czechs is not yet a line, It was Daxner's policy, whose views were not exactly Czech. It is demanded there for "the Slovak People's Government and the freedom to develop politically, economically and culturally", of course in the borders of Hungary, that Deshaib was not really reacted to the efforts of the "Czech National Association" until then, since our people already proclaimed the crushing of Austria-Hungary, but I want to say that in the same month of October 19l5 there was nevertheless a more favorable relationship between the American Czechs and Slovaks. The two branches began to feel instinctively at a certain moment that the fight against the common enemy must lead to common methods of struggle and finally also to common goals. And so it comes on 22, and 23. At the first conference of the "Slovak League" and the "Czech National Association" in Cleveland on October 1st and at this meeting of the representatives of the two national branches, the "Gleveländer Abhandlung" (Glevel Change Agreement) is later stylized. Their first demand is perfect independence in their own state, the second point is then the "complete union of the Czech and Slovak peoples in a federation of states with the absolute autoncmie of Slovakia", It is evident here that the old federalist longing, which was also expressed in Albert Mama- teys, the chair of the Slo.akiscnen Ligt, Menorandum, was transferred to the struggle for the common Czechoslovak state. In this sense, the Sjowaken announced their fight against Austria-Hungary in their press, i.e. from the beginning of the proper procedure. Thus, the Pittsburgher (rgan ¿er "Slovakian - 27 -