English Translation

- 7 - 4 2 wider affluent vision as the social and economic pundament of the young state could have formed, as would have been possible with the general war-related prosperity. Thus the harsh contrast of possession and non-possession, of the Arrived and the Non-Arrived, deepened the clutches in the slovaki-seen people, And the Germans would have assured this very well and instead of acting in a guided manner, only watched, even participated decisively in this evil game. It was only very significant that the Germans of the middle and lower strata of the people who were present, who were quite impeccable in terms of their attitude, were also vividly responding to this view. In the words that followed, it was mentioned that anesthesias had already begun to become more prosperous, but had indeed been repeatedly disturbed by corruption and clique economy. On the Slovak side, too, it was often pointed out that social justice, with which not only in the German Reich, but also the Czech worker, even the terstr.! Tsehechian students, would be given unprejudiced and socially just possibilities of probing their virtuousness. This general mood of dissatisfaction due to undisciplined social injustice and state arbitrariness had initially led to a certain willingness to go along and at least to a waiting attitude towards the attempt to reorganize the state, even in large parts of the population, which in itself were not to speak of as active forces of the insurrection movement. Very soon, however, these gullible masses, disappointed by the unfulfilledness of the propaganda promises of a military, political and economic nature, turned over bitterly - 8 -