YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-06-07
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Sovaks stouy maintain that they not Czechs
We're Czechs have desire to become Czechs not
faered to be called Czechs and when it is further
bered that the great majority of them would rather
Jail than call themselves members of the Czechoslovak
nation" Ga nation that exists only in the imagination of
powerdrunk Czechs potcans)o begins to understand
why knowing the world smile when Masaryk and
Benes denounce Hitlers methods with the Jews
We Slovaks admit readily enough that, far the
ruling Czechs concerned CzechoSlovakia is something
paradise: State much better than they had hoped
for much better than they deserve in fact too good to be
true AS for the Germans though they complain of many
things they too the whole satisfied if for other
than that they strong enough ultimately to win
their share of what they consider to be their rights and
that worst should to the worst they have Father
land just the border quite ready to take hand in
quarrel which they with their three and half mil
lions, cannot handle alone.
AS for the Sovaks the third largest national group in
the Republic they have yet to taste true liberty true de-
mocracy, in the in which here in America under
stand those terms in the in which Woodrow Wilson
understood them AS matter of fact they have yet to
hear from the Czechs the enormously satisfying admission
that they exist at ALL Yes believe not though Sovaks
existed such for thousand previous to the esab
shment of the CzechoSlovak Republic during the past
seventeen years of Freedom they have lost their Identify
they have become extinct dodos You will look for
them vain in the official In other wores Masaryk
his PROFESSIONAL henchmen pronounce few scientific
incantatons exercise bit of ethnopolcal hocuspocus
and million Sovaks quietly and goriously (f they
Nothing remains of their former independent existence and
degradation and their insignificant culture but few
apologize foonoes bulker histories of the GREAT
CZECH PEOPLE!
But what is the political significance of this stupendous
vanishngact performed by the Czechosovak Houdini?
Just this SINCE THE sLOvAKs DO NOT EXIST, THERE
CAN BE NO SLOVAK RIGHTS, NO sLOVAK GREW
ANCES, NO SLOVAK ACHES NO SLOVAK PAINS-NO
|SLOVAK PROBLEM Anyone that lamb which
exist develop pain in the neck much less
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that The great pity is that the directors of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation it INSTEAD OF SEEING
THROUGH IT. as Woodrow Wilson would have done at
glance.
PITTSBURGH PACT signed by President Masaryk and
other Czech and Slovak leaders By it's provisions Sovaks
to be bosses in their country that is to
Slovaka, they to have their parliament, and
SOVAK be the official language of the countrys
schools and courts But alas, today the PITTSBURGH
PACT is officially considered worthless scrap of paper.
President Masaryk who had drafted and signed it,
it is "FALZUM Of course, had served its purpose
we'll enough for the basis of it, Masaryk had succeeded
in collecting from American sovaks money than he
thought existed and had unified Czech and Sovak public
opinion to such extent that President Wilson's support
the establishment of the Republic assured
With President Wilson for the Republic the rest easy
THE REPUBLIC BECAME A REALITY, and with its re-
alzaon Masaryk could at last be himself He could
drop his friend of the Slovak people His right
hand men could do likewise.
CzechS could AFFORD to tOut the SlOVakS, ana
they did with vengeance! The State could be
called Czechoslovakia without hyphen) the PITTS
BURGH PACT could be thrust aside and the Czechzaton
of Sovaka could be carried Systematically ruhlessy
surely. Over three hundred thousand Czechs presently
found profitable to to Sovaka because Masaryk
had plenty of jobs waiting for them there AS
for the Sovaks unless they turned traitors to their
people, they could easily be disposed Of (when they
applied for jobs), by simply making it offcal practice
to brand them incompetent before they had chance
show their credentials prove their ability When
remembers that of these incompetents Ph. DIS
educated in accredited Czech and German universities
begins to understand what high plane of efficiency
Masaryk's democracy is The system is practically
foolproo To be petty government clerk you have
to be genius renegade Slovak, Czech. AS the
Czechs decide who is is not genius and who is
not safely regenerated from "Magyarism things always
work out for the best-interests of the Czechs.
But not only did the aforementioned three hundred
thousand Czechs find profitable to Czechoslovaka
the government found profitable to have them there
little consideration that did not it's attention from
the beginning For with these three hundred thousand
Czechs most of them adults and voters placed in strategic
positions and with Sovaka divided up into voting units in
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