As Minister for National Minorities of the K\u00e1rolyi Government, Oszk\u00e1r J\u00e1szi saw clearly that the eastern Slovak movement in north-eastern Hungary, like the republican vision in Szepes (Slovak: Spi\u0161), was a powerless movement from the very beginning. Their governmental support would have only deepened domestic and foreign policy tensions. Their social base was very weak from the outset. In S\u00e1ros (Slovak: \u0160ari\u0161) and Szepes counties, it was equally a movement of Hungarian county elites worried about their positions, who wanted to use the given historical moment mainly for the preservation of their remaining way of life, wealth, and influence. At the same time, the role and the importance of Kassa (Slovak: Ko\u0161ice) and the activities of government commissioner Mikl\u00f3s Moln\u00e1r were acknowledged in Budapest too, but they were confronted with the military weakness, diplomatic isolation and complete lack of support from the great powers to the historical Hungarian state facing disintegration. The Dvor\u010d\u00e1ks, by proclaiming on behalf of the \u201cEastern Slovaks\u201d their \u201cpeople\u2019s republic\u201d that was not registered by anyone and remained unnoticed even locally, actually accelerated the Czechoslovak military occupation of the region. In the case of Kassa, it can be concluded that the city’s leadership in November\u2013December 1918 had to find solutions to increasingly serious problems in a difficult situation. As government commissioner, Mikl\u00f3s Moln\u00e1r repeatedly asked the Budapest government to send troops to defend the city against Czechoslovak legions and to help keep the city in Hungarian hands. Sensing the changed political situation, the unresolved public order and security problems, the city leadership instructed Mikl\u00f3s Moln\u00e1r to negotiate with the leaders of the Czechoslovak state and army on the temporary occupation of the city by Czechoslovakia until the decision of the peace conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Minister for National Minorities of the K\u00e1rolyi Government, Oszk\u00e1r J\u00e1szi saw clearly that the eastern Slovak movement in north-eastern Hungary, like the republican vision in Szepes (Slovak: Spi\u0161), was a powerless movement from the very beginning. Their governmental support would have only deepened domestic and foreign policy tensions. Their social base was very weak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,568,540],"tags":[],"post_year":[745],"coauthors":[637],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum-social-science-review","category-studies","category-szemle","post_year-2021-1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n