the whole of the Czech people are opposed to present-day
Germany. They never recognised and never will recognise
what Germany has done against our country since September,
1938, and unconditionally support the present Czechoslovak
Government with its headquarters in London.
The same attitude is adopted by the great majority
of the Slovak people. In Slovakia the political, social,
economic and moral conditions are utterly deplorable. The
majority of the Slovak people considers that the present
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 percent 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