http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6n39p6z0 No online items Register of the Juraj Slávik papers Finding aid prepared by Blanka Pasternak Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 2003, 2004 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 1 papers Title: Juraj Slávik papers Date (inclusive): 1918-1968 Collection Number: 76087 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: Czech Physical Description: 54 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes, 3 microfilm reels(23.5 Linear Feet) Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, dispatches, memoranda, telegrams, clippings, and photographs relating to Czechoslovak relations with Poland and the United States, political developments in Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak emigration and émigrés, and anti-Communist movements in the United States. Creator: Slávik, Juraj, 1890-1969 Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1976. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Juraj Slávik papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Alternative Form Available Also available on microfilm (51 reels). 1890 Born in Dobrá Niva, Slovakia January 28 1910-1911 Ecole de Droit, Paris 1911 College de France, Paris 1913 Received his law degree from the University of Budapest 1918 Secretary of the Slovak National Council, Bratislava 1926 Minister of Agriculture and of the Unification of Laws (appointed by Jan Masaryk) 1929-1932 Minister of the Interior 1929-1935 Member of Parliament 1936 February 1 - Ambassador to Poland 1939 March 15 1939 Went on lecture tour in the United States for three months (started liberation movement along with Beneš) summer 1939 July Went back to Poland to help Czechoslovak soldiers, officers, and airmen escape from Hitler-occupied Czechoslovakia 1939 Left for France after the war started September 1939-1940 Member of the Czechoslovak National Committee in Paris 1940 June Left Paris for London 1940-1945 Broadcast via BBC to Hitler-occupied Czechoslovakia Minister of the Interior and Minister of Education, Government-in-Exile, London 1945 May Returned to Czechoslovakia 1945 June - Worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1946 June 1946 June - Ambassador to the United States 1948 March 1946-1947 Member of the Czechoslovak Delegation to the United Nations Accompanied Jan Masaryk to the Paris Peace Conference 1948 March Resigned his post as ambassador in protest against the coup d'état in Czechoslovakia ("I have decided to fight 3 for Czechoslovak democracy") Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 2 papers 1949 Member of the Executive Board and Chairman of the Social-Aid Committee of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia 1954? Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the Assembly of Captive European Nations 1969 May Died, Washington, D.C. Scope and Content Note The Juraj Slávik papers were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives from his wife, Gita Slávik, in two installments. The first, which arrived in May 1976, included material relating to Slávik's government service in Poland and the United States, Czechoslovak emigration and emigres, and anti-communist movements in the U.S. The second installment arrived in July 1978 and consisted of correspondence, personal documents, photographs, and microfilm relating to Slávik's service as a statesman, and his memoirs. The bulk of the collection consists of Slávik's speeches and writings, namely his numerous lectures in Great Britain during World War II, his patriotic radio speeches broadcast to Czechoslovakia by the BBC for the London-based Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II, as well as his writings on the history of Slovakia and its role within Czechoslovakia (see, in the speeches and writings file, "Slovakia within the Czechoslovak Republic," "Slovensko až do dneška," and "Protectorate Slovakia"). Of great importance are Slávik's memoirs entitled "Moja pamať - živá kniha (My Memory - A Living Book), which were published as a series of articles in New Yorkský Denník during the years 1955-1957. They explain the events that contributed to the downfall of Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938 and 1939, describe the beginning of the Czechoslovak exile movement in 1939 and 1940, the creation and activities of the Czechoslovak National Committee in Paris, and the deeds and fate of the Czechoslovak provisional government in London in 1940-1945. Of special note in the career file are Slávik's numerous dispatches and reports from the Czechoslovak Legation in Warsaw to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague, shedding some light on Czechoslovakia's relations with Poland before World War II. Also interesting in that series are materials relating to the peace settlement at the end of World War II and population transfers (see Ambassador to the United States in the career file). Of great importance are also documents on Czechoslovak emigration and emigres, and anti-communist movements in the U.S. (see Member, Council of Free Czechoslovakia in the career file). Subjects and Indexing Terms Anti-communist movements -- United States Czechoslovakia -- Emigration and immigration Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945 Statesmen -- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- Poland Poland -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia Diplomats -- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia -- History -- Coup d'état, 1948 Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia. Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí Biographical File 1919-1968 Scope and Contents note Biographical information, certificates, correspondence, financial papers, lists, clippings, and other printed matter, arranged alphabetically by physical form box 1, folder 1 Applications box 1, folder 2 Articles and clippings about Slávik box 1, folder 3 Awards box 1, folder 4 Biographical sketches box 1, folder 5 Certificates box 1, folder 6 Citizenship papers Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 3 papers Biographical File 1919-1968 box 1, folder 7 Diary box 1, folder 8-9 Family correspondence box 1, folder 10 Financial records Scope and Contents note Includes some correspondence box 1, folder 11 Identity papers Scope and Contents note Includes membership cards and passes box 2, folder 1-3 Information sent to Slávik from various individuals about the political and economic situation in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, covering the period 1940-1955 box 2, folder 4 Invitations box 2, folder 5-7 Reports received by Slávik from Warsaw from editor Hejret? after his departure in March 1939 box 2, folder 8 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1918-1968 Scope and Contents note Letters, notes, and telegrams, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent General box 3, folder 1 A box 3, folder 2 B box 3, folder 3 C box 3, folder 4 D box 3, folder 5 E box 3, folder 6 F box 3, folder 7 G box 3, folder 8 H box 3, folder 9 I box 3, folder 10 J box 3, folder 11 K box 3, folder 12 L box 3, folder 13 M box 3, folder 14 N box 3, folder 15 O box 3, folder 16 P box 3, folder 17 R box 3, folder 18 S box 3, folder 19 T box 3, folder 20 U box 3, folder 21 V-W box 3, folder 22 Z box 3, folder 23 Miscellaneous box 3, folder 24-25 Unidentified 1938-1968 box 4, folder 1 A. Powell Davies Memorial Committee 1958 box 4, folder 2 Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 4 papers Correspondence 1918-1968 General Adams, Paul Louison 1948 box 4, folder 3 Albright, Charles A. 1950 box 4, folder 4 All Souls' Church Unitarian 1949-1957 box 4, folder 5 Ambrož, Anton P. 1955-1956 box 4, folder 6 Ambulance Trust Fund 1940 box 4, folder 7 American Council of Learned Societies 1948 box 4, folder 8 American Czechoslovak Centre, Inc. 1957 box 4, folder 9 American Friends of Czechoslovakia 1946 box 4, folder 10 American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees, Inc. 1948-1963 General note See also Career file/Member, Council of Free Czechoslovakia box 4, folder 11 American Liberation Committee for Spiš and Orava, Chicago 1951 box 4, folder 12 The American Mercury 1949 box 4, folder 13 Anderle, Josef 1964-1965 box 4, folder 14 Andic, V. E. 1949-1962 box 4, folder 15 Andráš, Julius 1957 box 4, folder 16 Andrial, Jindřich 1948 box 4, folder 17 Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 5 papers Correspondence 1918-1968 General Anglo-Czechoslovak Christian Fellowship 1943 box 4, folder 18 Antl, Fred 1939 box 4, folder 19 Antošík, Jozef 1948-1950 box 4, folder 20 Ashton 1944 box 4, folder 21 Augustine Herman Czech American Historical Society 1954-1963 box 4, folder 22 Balint, Nicholas 1954-1957 box 4, folder 23 Barbaric, M. 1948 box 4, folder 24 Barnes & Nobles, Inc. 1965 box 4, folder 25 Baťa, Tomas 1939 box 4, folder 26 Bedo, Alexander 1955-1956 box 4, folder 27 Behárka, Jan 1950 box 4, folder 28 Bělohlávek undated box 4, folder 29 Benedict, J. 1939 box 4, folder 30 Beneš, Edvard 1940-1942 General note See also Career file/Ambassador to the United States box 4, folder 31 Bervida, Jan undated box 4, folder 32 Register of the Juraj Slávik 76087 6 papers Correspondence 1918-1968 General Biddle, Anthony 1939-1941 box 4, folder 33 Biddle, Margaret undated box 4, folder 34 Bielecki, T. 1955 box 4, folder 35 Biggs undated box 4, folder 36 Bloch, Josef 1940 box 4, folder 37 Bogomolov, Alexander J. 1941 box 4, folder 38 Boháč, Vladimír 1946 box 4, folder 39 Boitin-Jasinská, Myra 1948 box 4, folder 40 Bothwell, James H. 1955-1956 box 4, folder 41 Bratislava (Czechoslovakia).