Reply to Mr. R.W. Seton Watson's book "Slovakia then and now."
Vienna: the author, 1932. Pamphlet. 39p. booklet, clerical edges worn, otherwise very good.
Jehlicka, a Catholic professor exiled from Czechoslovakia because of his opposition to the new state, was an ardent Slovak nationalist, though mistrusted by other Slovak activists because of suspicion that he was working for Hungary. After the rise of the Nazis, Jehlicka looked toward them as sponsors of Slovak independence. It has been noted that Hitler’s 1938 speech declaring that the Slovaks were a separate nation quoted extensively from a telegram Jehlicka had sent four days earlier seeking his support. (See Tom Lorman's "For God and which Nation? The Ideology of František Jehlička, Priest, Politician and Pariah of the Slovak National Movement," p. 538). This tract concludes with a call for a plebiscite on Slovakian independence.
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