English Translation

- 14 - wish even on the occasion of a great manifestation on 1 May 1916, i.e. long before the end of the war, expressed.Mr. Vavro Šrobar unsigned the first political decrees published by the Czech-Slovak National Council on 28 October 1918. Zsei days later, in Turčianský Svätý Martin, demanded the representatives. the Slovak/Parties, "grouped around the National Committee of the Slovak Stanze of the Tachechoslovak nation, "the absolute right of self-determination on the basis of complete independence." In the constitutional constituent convoy, all Slovaks formed a geneinämmen club, you without distinction of the "arteien". Unanimously approach the Constitution, which was later challenged by certain autonoaists as an instrument of centrelization, for it did not stinge lm in accordance with the Pittsburgher Agreement, which in Jshre 19l8 the later President of the Republic, Professor Masaryk, had concluded with the delegates of the American Slowaken.It is notatory that the weaning of the new conditions in Slovakia was infinitely more difficult than in Bohemia and Moravia. Under the former regime, Slovakia had no schools, it was not represented in the public service and therefore had no staff that would have been able to take over the administration of the country,At the head of this administration were Slovak patriots of the pre-war period, but the thousands and aberdeuses of functions, which had to be immediately occupied, could only be occupied by officials sent from Bohemia. Nevertheless, from the first days of the Republic to the Slovak staff in the © civil service, it was so recruited that in 1924, after five years of the new regime, the Slovak "supplementary officers" already had, of 3081 officials were Slovaks in 2058, 519 Tachechen,