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RACIAL PROBLEMS

IN

HUNGARY

By

SCOTUS VIATOR

Appendice 9

 

 

 

 


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APPENDIX IX

MAGYARIZATION OF THE SLOVAKS THROUGH THE CHURCH (1905-6)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Slovak Parishes where in spite of this Magyar sermons are preached every year.

Total number of Parishes where Magyar language has gained a foothold.

 

Total

Number of Parishes.

Number of Parishes in which Slovak is official language of con­gregation.

 

 

 

 

 

At least twelve times.

A t least nine times.

At least thrice.

Once or twice regu­larly.

 

Roman Catholic

1,313

754

2

5

37

13

105 or 13 p.c.

Lutheran .

611

241

13

9

19

28

78 or 32 p.c.

See Ung. Stat. Jahrb. xiv, p. 420. The naivety with which such mon­strous statistics are compiled and published officially affords a striking proof of the violence of Chauvinist feeling in government circles.