The Czechs and their Central European Neighbours 1
A Fraudulent Trick: the Existence of a "Czechoslovak" Nation 4
Fresh Contacts Between the Czechs and Slovaks 5
Formation of an Artificial Mosaic State in 1918 9
The Czechoslovak-Hungarian Frontier 18
Footnotes 28

Systematic Oppression of the Hungarian Minority 31
The Czechoslovak Land Reform 34
Capital Levy 36
Reimbursements of War Loans 36
The Fate of the Hungarian Banks in Slovakia and Ruthenia 37
The Czechoslovak Taxation Policy 38
Pensioners 38
The Magyar Cultural Life, Theatres, Press, Churches 39
Footnotes 43

Petitions to the League of Nations
The Czechoslovak Alliance System and Hungary's Desire for the Peaceful Revision of the Borders 9
Foreign Endorsements for the Territorial Aspirations of Hungary 53
Footnotes 57

The Nationality Problem in Czechoslovakia 59
The Sudeten German Question 62
Foreign Interventions in the Internal Political Struggle 68
Contacts Among the Representatives of the Minorities 69
The Question of Minorities: an Internal and External Problem of Czechoslovakia 73

Footnotes 82

Confrontations with the Representatives of the National Minorities
Confrontations with the Magyar Minority 87
Confrontations with the Sudeten German Minority 94
Confrontations Between the Slovaks and the Czechs 97
Confrontations with the Ruthenian Minority 1O1
Confrontations with the Polish Minority 103
Footnotes 105

The Mission of Lord Runciman and the Dissatisfied Minorities 109
Failure of the British Mediation and its Aftermath 124
From the Munich Conference to the Arbitral Award of Vienna 130
Footnotes 145

Prelude to the First Vienna Arbitration 151
The First Vienna Arbitral Award 163
Solemn Reception of the Hungarian Army on the Receded Territory 167
Footnotes 169

The Intense Agitations of Masaryk and Benes for an Ambitious Czech Political Role 171
The Encircled Encircler 173
The Political Activities of Benes During His Second Exile 176
The Autonomist Slovaks and Benes After 1945 181
Benes and Hungary After 1945 182
Conclusion 183
Footnotes 185

1. The Minorities Treaty, 1919 187
2. Protocol of Benes to the Peace Conference, 1919 191
3. The Enforcement of the Land Reform in Slovakia After 1919 192
4. Petition from Citizens of the USA to the League of Nations 193
5. Text of the Agreement Between the Czechoslovak Government and theGerman "Activist" Parties, February 18,1937 195
6. The Carlsbad Program, 1938 197
7. A Hungarian Welcome to Lord Runciman 199
8. The Runciman Report 201
9. The Munich Agreement, 1938 205
10. The First Vienna Arbitral Award, 1938 207
11. Statistical Data on Hungary 209

Published documents 211
Unpublished documents 212
Books 212
Periodicals 217
Essays in periodical literature 218
Newspapers 220

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FIGURE 1

Relief and Hydrographic map of the Carpathian Basin . . . . . 19

FIGURE 2

Hungary Before and After World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Source: Seeds of Conflict Series I, Hungary, p. 58

FIGURE 3

Hungarian Minorities in the Successor States After World War I .. 21

FIGURE 4

The Losses of Hungary to the Successor States AfterWorld War I . . 22

Source: Seeds of Conflict Series 1, Hungary, Figure 4

FIGURE 5

The first Czechoslovak Republic, 1918-1938 ...... .. . . . . . . . 23

Source: Mamatey & Luza, A History of the First Czechoslovak Republic

1918-1948, p.2

FIGURE 6

German Occupied Territory from Czecho-Slovakia After

the Munich Agreement in 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

FIGURE 7

The First Arbitral Award of Vienna, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

FIGURE 8

The Renewed Czecho-Slovak Republic After 1945 . . . . . . . . . . 180

Source: Wallace, W.V., C2echoslouakia, Figure 5