[1] The council was led by Viktor Dvorcsák [sk], an advocate and ex-archivist from Prešov working for the Hungarian revisionist movement.

[2] Before the war, Dvorcsák created a theory about so-called Slovjaks, allegedly an independent nation living in Eastern Slovakia.

After the war, he defended the integrity of the historic Hungary, and when he was unsuccessful, he declared that the Slovjaks should exercise the right to self-determination and proclaimed Eastern Slovak People's Republic on 11 December 1918 in Košice.

Dvorcsák fled to Budapest, where he worked for Hungarian irredentism and lobbied abroad for the revision.

e ČSR; declared a "people's democracy" (without a formal name change) under the Ninth-of-May Constitution following the 1948 coup.