“ In a recent interview President Masaryk said: “We can never agree to anything like the Danube federation, which would be old Austria without the emperor. Czechoslovakia must preserve its absolute political and economical independence. ”

“ That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) ”

“ Our form of government will tend to approach the American form of government. Even now we are halfway between a ministerial, parliamentary government, and a government of strong men headed by a president with a cabinet, and perhaps the Czechoslovak president will later be vested with more power.”
Recent census of Slovakia uncovered the gross falsifications of the former Magyar statistics. The important city of Košice (Kaschau) had according to the census of 1900 only 23.50% of Slovaks, and in 1910 this proportion was further decreased to 14.89% . ”