Vzťahy Andreja Hlinku a R. W. Seton-Watsona
The Relations of Andrej Hlinka and R. W. Seton-Watson

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this study is to outline the relations between two personalities of Slovak and Czechoslovak history Andrej Hlinka and R. W. Seton-Watson before the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic and also during this era. This period is pretty significant for a formation of Slovaks into a sovereign national subject with all essential attributes. It analyses the contribution of both of them in this process with all attendant circumstances, the negative as well as the positives ones. Moreover, this article shows that these prominent men were found on the same side of the fence during the Hungarian period; they had a common aim of eliminating Hungarization and concentrated their effort on it. That is why they had to face constant pressure from Hungarian leading circles. When this reality became the past and Slovakia occurred to be in a new state together with the Czechs, their positions were transformed as well. They quarrelled with each other until that time when Hlinka endeavoured to solve Slovak matters by political autonomy based on ethnic principles. Seton-Watson disagreed with such a kind of autonomy because he had a different view about it. For that reasons it would be attempted to examine the complexity of this phenomenon, how it appeared in their opinions and attitudes and which activities they had to undertake.

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