English Translation

37 2 To learn that, according to their general and green opinion, this contrast has in fact formed, if not the most important core of the whole insurgency movement. One of the most significant findings of social biology is that artificial congestions of social forces usually cause social crises. (e.g. The German working-class movement of the 19th century could clearly be declared as a naturally conditioned movement of small and medium-sized enterprises.) In the narrowness of the Slovak habitat, much smaller congestions had to lead in a much shorter time to quite dramatic political manifestations of nature, due to the naturally prepared contrast in law of that small group of the Protestant Slovaks, which had a relatively densely occupied group with ambitious ascension aspirants, against the almighty Catholic group, which exploits its political monopoly position ruthlessly. It is worth remembering that in the Czechoslovak period, the former have also produced a number of leading politicians of format, such as Štefanik, Hodža, Osusky, Dérer, Stefanek, Šrobar, etc. It is no wonder, therefore, that the ideological and personal connections to the Czechoslovak state were also particularly alive in the Protestant group, and that the very core of the forces which fed the idea of the break-out from the present state structure into a structure more favourable to their unsatisfying ambition, and now came to their hour with the weakening of the empire and the hope of the near Bolshevik aid, and, of course, there were other forces, especially - as far as not already identical with the previous group - the parts of the active officer corps, which had always been Czechoslovsky minded, supplemented by former Czechoslovakians who were richly imported by air, finally 3