Angyal Béla: Érdekvédelem és önszerveződés. Fejezetek a csehszlovákiai magyar pártpolitika történetéből 1918-1938 - Nostra Tempora 6. (Galánta-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
Magyar-szlovák helységnévjegyzék
Summary 347 Hungary served in the majority of cases political goals. Here, not only the opposition Hungarian parties, but the Germans in Spis and Ruthenian autonomy parties received support permanently. Moreover, the Slovak Folk Party - of which autonomy ambitions the Hungarian circles wanted to use for shaking the Czechoslovak state - received support, too. Support of education - that was of a smaller extent, although for the minority in Czechoslovakia was very important, because of the lack of high schools and university institutions in Hungarian language. Both Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia paid special attention to the organisation of the Hungarian workers, from the 30’s. From the middle of the 30’s - in part for the influence of foreign examples, the Hungarian National Party inclined more and more to nationalistic dimensions and the establishment of the uniform minority party was set as the goal of its activities. The results of the district elections in 1935 reveal that the Hungarian National Party got stronger in the Hungarian areas. It had better results that the National Christian- Socialist Party. After internal arguments in 1936 the two parties united. Expectations from Hungary had an important role in the establishment of this union. In 1938 in Czechoslovakia that under the German pressure was collapsing, the demands of Hungarian people were radicalized more and more. The United Hungarian Party could implement its original aim - gather 80-90 per cent of Hungarian voters. In the first place, in October the Hungarian National Committee was established from the representatives of the Hungarian Parliament and Territorial Assembly. Their calm appeals had significant role in the fact that after the Munich Agreement they kept calm in the Hungarian territories until the Vienna Decision. The Vienna Decision’s result was that a significant part of territories lived by Hungarian people was annexed to Hungary. With this act one chapter of the history of Hungarian people living in Czechoslovakia ended.
