English Translation

40a → -30 AT For months, more than 200 Slovaks suffered in the prisons of Pressburg, Trenèín, Rosenberg and Neutra. The number of silent victims, who are responsible for their national production, cannot be reported. All the leading or more well-known Slovaks were entered in black lists and everyone was forced to intern at least. During the mobilization were held liable and innocent or for a trifle of gendarmes in fetters carried away Milan Hodža, Dr. Ján Jesenský, under suspicion of treason was imprisoned Dr. Palo Fábry, sentenced to one year by the current senator Roháček, for six months Ján Cablk-Malár etc. I escaped the prison or the front only in such a way that I left Budapest and fled to Brno, later to Prague. Political and national work was completely interrupted. The National Party, which had reorganized itself just before the war under the secre- taries Gregor-Tajovsky and Karol Medvecký, (a presentation about the Slovak Naticnal party put Jozef Gregor together), ceased all its activities in order not to cause any inconvenience to the members of the Committee and the Party and in order to not possibly have to hold rallies against Slaventism and for Magyarentism in the name of Slovakia, the official passivity of the National Party actually lasted until the surrender of Austria and was only carried out by the deliberations of the leading men of St. Martin and Liptau broke down at the beginning of 1917, when the former King Charles tried to establish relations with the Entente for the purpose of special peace on the way through Prince Sixtus. The "National Newspaper" published a remarkable article on the necessity of the passivity of the National Party, but at the same time condemned the inertia and weakness of many Slovak intellectuals who hid behind the passivity of the parties in order to do nothing. However, the terror of the officials, the gendarmes. In many places, the leading factors of the Slovaks were almost forced to speak openly against the Russians and the South Slavs and to celebrate the victorious Hungary and Austria in times of the greatest arousal with brachial force. For example, in Rosenberg - 31 -