Vienna knew full well that the Magyars had come within a whisker of making their revolt stand up. To incite them again now, by dismembering Hungary, would insure that anti-Habsburg resentments in Budapest would continue to smoulder and grow. And then next time the Magyar revolt might succeed. […] Accordingly the emperor, perhaps swayed by this kind of ‘real politique’ on the part of his chief advisors, very neatly forgot his proffers of support for the Slovak cause. They were made, after all, in ambiguous fashion and during the flush of revolt and couldn’t be considered binding. Thus Slovakia was thrown back to the Magyar wolves.36
And so: intensified magyarisation. In this context, it is easier to understand the rather harsh-sounding words pronounced by Štúr in his address. He saw clearl
