STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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P. Hlinka, the founder and head of the Slovak autonomous party, declared at a congress of the party in l930: "We are the founders of the republic and this publication belongs to us; the integrity of the Republic and the integrity and integrity of Slovakia always become the same. the basis of the politics of our party," Without foreign interference, the Slovak problem would have found its normal solution in the fraternal relations of the two tribes of the nation, Cerechte treatment of minorities Czechoslovakia has also managed to resolve the most delicate question - those of minorities -,Like all lands in Kitteleuropa, where the races are very mixed, the schechoslovakia had a considerable number of Mitbirgers of non-Czechoslovac nationality. The census in l930 showed that the total number of inhabitants including 11 foreigners was 14,730,000. Of these, 9.689,000 were teche - 0006n 000269 e 00021 em n,187.OcO Jews/ in the political sense, for the "samtzanl of the J, which reached 357,000 /, 82,000 Plen and about 30,000 other-language Kitbirger //Romans, Z,geuner etc./ The Czechs and Slovaks formed 66.97, the Germans 22.3%, The Hungarians 4.81, the Ruthenians 3.7, the Jews 1.3%, the Poles 0.73 of the "amt number of the population. The German minority -ar the visually strongest and with regard to its economic strength and geographical position long the western border of the bond by far the most powerful.