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