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36a - 22 - 76 radezu no more well-known Slovak intellectual who would not have been in prison for several months or years. Vacov and Szegedin state prisons were so populated by Slowa-ken that with only a little decency and tolerance the Magyars should at least have introduced bilingualism on .Orientation boards there. As far as administration is concerned, I would just like to remind you briefly that, in my opinion, it was not the municipal committee, the notary and the magyar officials who were ruling; similar in the county representation, which was actually 'only apparently elected', and whose half consisted of the largest taxpayers, which means the rich judg and the nobles. I must remind you that the government tolerated, indeed ordered, that the district governors administer the districts in such a way that every.pichtmagyarè political stimulus was made impossible: for this purpose, the official, except for the magyar-lawbook, also had the sb-named "discretional authority." In order to restrict national agitations or at least to reduce them, the law could also apply in the context of local circumstances. He held all the Pan-Slaws in evidence, spied, persecuted, punished for every trifle, called countless times for every nonsense in the county town etc., and reported on everything up. It is difficult to talk seriously about the state elections. Slovakia's elections have always been a big comedy. The electoral law, even though it was not conducted under the assistance of troops and gendarmes, and if the elections had not been held in public and under terrible official pressure, did not give the Slovaks the opportunity to win a corresponding representation in Parliament, and the Romanians and the South Slavs were in a similar situation. The Apponyi laws of 1907 completely undermined the development of the Slovak elementary school, Up to 340 church schools, where apart from the magyar objects at least 4 - 6 hours weekly also Slovak was taught, was in 1914 the whole school system, i.e. almost 4oo people's and citizens' schools,