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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:33:39 -0500
From:         PMUZILA@MACALSTR.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Slovakia's Hydro-energy Potentials

I am sorry for the subject header but I forgot to change it.

Dear Joe Panon,

>...if you want to discuss something about 20th century history, let's do it
>but preferably citing Western sources.
>
>...Of course, knowing a little bit about Benes and Masaryk's effective
>propaganda in the West prior to WW I, I wouldn't be surprised if much of it
>still survives in EB.(Encyclopedia Britanica)

        In the first statement you encourage me to use western sources, but in
the second one you express that even the western sources are affected by, in
this case Czech (since you mentioned Benes and Masaryk), anti-hungarianism.
Probably the whole world is against Hungary. You put me into difficult
possition of finding a convincing source. But I found one : It is Collier's
Encyclopedia, last published in 1991 (I hope it is not to old for you, or maybe
affected by communism ????), Volume 12, Page 387, Word : Hungary.
        The author of this passage is ISTVAN CSICSEY RONAY. ( I hope the name
is convincing enough)

        "... and during the Munich crisis it restricted (Hungary) its claims to
the ethnically Hungarian areas of Slovakia that it received by the Vienna
Award of 1938. In February 1939 Hungary joined the Anti-Comintern Pact, but
when Hitler marched into Prague in March 1939, Teleki occupied Ruthenia against
German wishes and secured a common frontier with Poland."
                        (Istvan Csicsey Ronay, p.387, 2nd paragraph)

        There is also a map added to the text on this page describing the areas
occupied by Hungary with this legend :

        " Southern Slovakia- Occupied by Hungary, 1938; returned to
Czechoslovakia, 1945 "

        I have looked to the Volume 7, and under title "Czechoslovakia" I found
these words describing April 1945.

        "...During World War II a Czechoslovak goverment-in-exile, established
in London, claimed legal continuity with the Czechoslovak Republic. Its postwar
program, drafted by the Communists and accepted with only minor changes by
other groups represented in the government, was promulgated in the liberated
city of Kosice in April 1945. The Kosice program upheld formally the 1920
constitution but provided for important changes in the political process. It
abolished the senate and reduced the number of political parties in a fashion
favouring the left. The same objective was served by passing laws against
collaborators, by nationalizing large properties, and by restricting freedom of
press. An amendment to the constitution gave Slovakia limited autonomy."

        This is all is say about this topic. I believe that some unjustice
could have been done to the Hungarian population (by considering some of the
collaborants), but look at  the years 1938 to 1945 when Hungary occupied the
whole Southern Slovakia. (Please search for that map, I saw it in many books)
        I was taught (you may consider it to be a communist education) that
the problem of Hungarian population in Slovakia in 1945-1948 was solved by an
agreement between Hungary and Slovakia by 1:1 exchange of population.
Hungarians were moved to Hungary and Slovaks were moved to Slovakia.

        I hope the argument a gave you is satisfactory and brought from unbias
sources. (I cited them word by word).

        When speaking about how much Slovaks harmed the Hungarians I will cite
Istvan Csicsey Ronay :

        "In February 1947 the Paris Peace Conference restored the Trianon
frontiers and obliged Hungary TO PAY REPARATIONS to Soviet Union, Yugoslavia,
and Czechoslovakia."

        To you want to add something ???

                                Patrik Muzila
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