NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27 Page 74 · 74 of 188
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27
English Translation
- 39-27 - The effects of economic, revivalal and political small-scale work were felt. Food cooperatives, financial institutions and numerous intelligent men were founded and maintained constant relations with the villages. The number of people's educational staff grew from day to day, and so all the persecutions and hardships were vanquished by the Magyars, the Slovak magazines were spreading more and more, and L.i. the state elections of the Jah: it was l906 that the Slovaks won 7 of their candidates. Five years later Hungarian terrorism still surpassed the Banffy elections of 1896, and up to two. Dr. Blaho and Ferdiš Juriga) fell all our candidates you, ch, Bei, these elections in l9lo was also present Dr. Seaton Watson in Skalitz. The celebration of Slovakia's political success in the year l906 had therefore been deplorable, and no one was deterred from the failures. A small group of people from the background remained faithful to their programme, and we founded the "Slovanský Obzor" (Slovak Round Show) in Budapest one year later. This was followed by the 'flows' (Prúdy) around which, with the exception of a few others, the most recent P triots Dr. Ivan Mar-kovic, Ing, Ján Burian, and the editor Franz Votruba, Dr. Jan Halla and others, joined. After three years of working at the "Volksblatt" in Skalitz, which in the west of Slovakia d'n soil for agricultural transport, vórbeigee, I was appointed in 9lo by Milan Hodža to the direction of the newly founded "Slovak Tagblattes* (Slovenský Denix). Almost all: these new time restrictions already intensively and methodically cultivated the idea of Czechoslovak reciprocalness, the ice of Czech-Slo-Wakian "unity" drew a significant boost also from the Czech-slovak gatherings in Luhatschowitz. The "Czech-Slovak unity" in Irag carried out more than tooth-year work on powerful influence in Slovakia and Bohemia. Through the approach of the magyar Jerror, especially in the period of the Kossuth coalition from Jalre l905 to 19l0, also the interest of our Czech friends grew, which -28 -