Fedinec Csilla: A kárpátaljai magyarság történeti kronológiája 1918-1944 - Nostra Tempora 7. (Galánta-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
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Summary 529 Transcarpathia’s annexing to Ukraine. Between November 1918 and May 1919 the Hutsul National Council was founded whose centre was in Jasyn’a and which proclaimed the Hutsul Republic that had a short existence. This attempt was ended by the entry of the Romanian army. The next attempt was launched by the Russian-Ukrainian emigration of the North American continent that pursued the events in the motherland with permanent attention. They established organisations, among which in 1918 the American National Council of Ruthenians headed by Nikolaj Csopej in Homestead (USA) had a considerable influence on the events. Gregory Zhatkovych, a lawyer, empowered by the National Council, formulated the main goals of the organisation. The organisation joined the Mid-European Democratic Union, the president of which was T. G. Masaryk, and signed the Declaration of Common Aims of the Independent Mid-European Unions, and later on 12th November 1918 in Scranton he voted for annexing the counties - that he considered to belong to the Ruthenian territories - to the Czechoslovak Republic on condition that the Czechoslovak state ensures autonomy to the majority of inhabitants. W. Wilson, the President of the USA was informed about the Scranton resolution. Consequently on 18th January 1919 on the occasion of the Paris Peace Conference, E. Beneš, who represented the Czechoslovak government, and K. Kramar in the matter of Transcarpathia invited neither the local organisations, nor the ones that sympathised with Hungary or represented the Ukrainian stream, but the representatives of the American National Council of Ruthenians, including Gregory Zhatkovych and Anton Beszkid, the head of the Ruthenian Council of Prešov that at that time belonged to Czechoslovakia. On 12th March at the Paris Peace Conference the Czechoslovak claims - mainly related to Transcarpathia - were accepted. Later, on 8th May 1919 in Uzhhorod that was under Czechoslovak occupation, the councils of Prešov, Uzhhorod, and Khust met and established the Central Ruthenian National Council. The Council declared its “independent” joining to Czechoslovakia. In August the Czechoslovak government made steps for arranging civil administration, standing by the military administration that had existed from the beginning of the occupation. Under these circumstances the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on 10th September 1919, according to which the region, i. e. Transcarpathia (the most part of Ung, Bereg, Ugocsa, and Máramaros counties) got under the autonomy of the Czechoslovak Republic with the official name Podkarpatská Rus. In this agreement, Czechoslovakia committed itself to arrange the territory as one with its own autonomy. Issues related to this were attached to the Czechoslovak Constitution. The population could not accept the political change. It took some time till this fact became real in people’s minds. At the beginnings, the directorate, headed by Gregory Zhatkovych, who after a few months admitted that his efforts were hopeless, managed the territorial issues. From that time with short intersections, Transcarpathia was led by a governor appointed in
