The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Miscellaneous (14)
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. 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% . With the Magyar pressure removed the number of people who declared themselves Slovaks jumped nearly four times. The enumeration just completed shows that Slovaks in Košice number 22,808 or 49.38,% Magyars 17,470 or 37.83% , Germans 2251 or 4.88%, others 3568 or 7.91%.
In the county of Šaryš, north of Košice, recent census gave the following figures as compared with the census of 1900: Slovaks increased from 115,042 to 148,424, Rusins decreased from 33,988 to 9202, Germans decreased from 10,886 to 2401, and Magyars decreased from 10,926 to 6309. The total population of the county decreased in 19 years by 4200.