Československý ústav zahraniční a pokusy prosadit péči o podkarpatoruské krajany
Czechoslovak Foreign Institute and Attempts to Enforce Care for Subcarpathian Countrymen

Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak Foreign Institute was tasked with care for countrymen of Czechoslovak origin abroad. Nevertheless, it was not an official state office but only an organisation with a participation of few ministries. Compatriots from Subcarpathian Rus did not receive a proper care during the First Republic. Attempts of the institute, individuals as well as some organisations to rectify this state were not successful. As a result, a free sphere of Hungarian and other anti-Czechoslovak hostile agitation negatively influenced Subcarpathian countrymen who subsequently shaped the development in their former homeland in an anti-Czechoslovak spirit. This primarily became evident in the Second Republic but partially also during the World War II. On the other side, the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute and some others were aware of this shortcoming and tried to improve the situation, howbeit unsuccessfully.

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