English Translation

45a - - 36 - to cry, when I saw the mistrust that otherwise distinguished men kept over our far-reaching plans. The question was decided by Švehla, who was able to explain the situation in Slovakia in detail by Dr. Šrobár. After the departure of Šrobar, also Vot-ruba and I visited Švethla to address him. Our tireless collaborators in Vienna, M.Hodža, Korbel Stodola and Ivan Dérer, also brought about a change in the views of Czech deputies, and thus succeeded in asserting with united forces that the Slovaks were also included in the May Declaration, Fs should also be reminded that Šrobár was also Dr. Tobolka, who at that time was the chief author of the "Národní Listy" and the most stubborn opponent of our idea, had visited and asked him to send Dr. Kraméř and Dr. Rašín to the Vienna prison the greetings of Slovakia and our researches. Šrobár had left Prague with the firm belief that the creation of the Czecho-Slovak state was on the right track. In Budapest, he visited Dr. Emil Stodola and quickly asked him to prepare a statistical ecizze of the Slovak territory, mainly of the Magya-Rich-Slovak language border. Dr. Stodula provided us with this work, which provided us two years later with excellent services in the diplomatic negotiations. (The Slovak minorities at the border between the Magyar and Slo-Wak, 19l9). The declaration of the Czech deputies, which was read in the Vienna Parliament on 30 May 19l7, is a landmark in the history of our nation and has acted as a bomb on the Magyaric politicians. For a few days she did not consider journalism at all, she didn't know what to answer to it, then began a rage, investigations and various outbursts of anger. The magyar leaves began to write about the betrayal of Czech soldiers and demanded energetically: away from Austria and the Czechs, at last Tisza also spoke on 23 July in the magya- rian parliament. He declared the state's record "some Member of Parliament with unspeakable names" ridiculous, he did not want to be with these gentlemen at all. - 37 -