Government at Bratislava brought this situation about and betrayed the Slovak people and the Czechoslovak Republic. The former Slovak Government Parties from the period before March 15th,1939/agrarians, liberals, socialists/ almost in their entirety support the Czechoslovak government and are opposed to the present regime in Slovakia, while of the former Catholic People's Party, which in 1939 took over from the Germans the conduct of Slovak affairs, to-day, according to our reports, at least 60 per cent are opposed to the present regime. They are dissatisfied with it for having allied itself with pagan German Nazism, with having permitted a declaration of war against Poland, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, as well as against the Czechoslovak Government, and also for having caused the present politically untenable state of affairs in Slovakia. The Holy See may have other information about the conditions in Slovakia, But I consider it as my duty to hand over objectively to the Holy See the information based on reports which have been regularly received from home in the course of the last two years. Under these circumstances Slovakia et the end of the war, could be the scene of grave disturbances, the results of which, if they are not coped with in time, may be |