They had 33 deputies19. 12. 1. 1. respectivelythat is the majority of the 56 deputies that Slovakia had in the Prague Parliament before World War II. The principal leaders of the Slovak Democratic Party. created only in 1945. approved this undemocratic decision. In spite of this fact those politicians who have mostly joined the Council of Free Czechoslovakia. are considered as speakers for Slovakia. while the conservative forces constituting a great majority of the Slovak emigration are without any representation in the Free Europe Committee. These Slovak refugees can hardly understand why the leftwing of the Slovak political emigration should enjoy a greater favor of the American agencies than its more conservative and decidedly more antiCommunist center." Representative DANIEL J. FLOOD. of Penn. sylvania. inserted In the United States CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on May 1. 1951. a memorandum of the executive committee of the Slovak League of America: "The Slovak nation has had its fill of the political system represented by Czechoslovakia and. presently. by the Czech National Socialists. other Czech groups. and the socalled Czechoslovaks in exile. The Slovak nation has had enough of Zenkl and Papanek.
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