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He rendered valuable service to France as an astronomist before the war, and as an airman during the war. He has rendered still greater service to the Czecho-Slovak cause as a diplomat.
The Czech deputy Tusar declared that "the war must end with the creation of a Czecho-Slovak State, with the victory of democratic ideas and with the defeat of militarism and despotism. We will obtain freedom, cost what it may." Thereupon the Czech deputies sang the Czech national anthem. The next day deputy Stribrny delivered a speech which we have quoted in a previous chapter.
In the above-mentioned order it is asserted that in the corps to which it is addressed, as well as in other corps, some attempts of the Czecho-Slovak elements have been successful in causing confusion among enemy ranks. Some of our Czecho-Slovak soldiers deserted and went over to the Italians.
It has been repeated several times by Czech officers whenever they found an opportunity of going over to the Italians. During the offensive of June, 1918, the Austrian press openly attributed the Austrian failure to "Czech treachery," asserting that the plan of the offensive was communicated to the Italian headquarters staff by Czecho-Slovak officers.
It even seems to have filtered into the brain of certain West African tribes; and in 1918 a Czecho-Slovak He paused, overcome with emotion. 'But if It is a thing man can't do without, why haven't we heard of it? I demanded. 'Men, replied William sadly, seem determined to do without It. They don't know what is good for them.
"The Woman Who Was His Friend" and "The Gooseherd" are less important, but of considerable technical interest. This volume should be set beside the collection of "Czecho-Slovak Stories," which I have mentioned on an earlier page. Here will be found further stories by Jan Neruda and Svatopluk Čech, together with a remarkable group of stories by Rumanian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hungarian authors.
As a matter of fact, the National Council, on the ground of this recognition of full sovereignty, was constituted as a Provisional Government on October 14, 1918, and has the power to exercise all rights appertaining to a sovereign and independent government. Thus implicitly Great Britain considers Czecho-Slovak independence already a fait accompli.
For the Bolsheviks, in spite of the murder of Count Mirbach the German ambassador at Moscow on 6 July, grew ever more friendly to the Prussians, and the Entente had to go to Vladivostock for a basis of operations, and rely largely upon the romantic achievements of the Czecho-Slovak prisoners who had enlisted in the Russian armies and refused to lay down their arms at the Peace of Brest-Litovsk.
In Canada, too, the Czechs joined the army in order to fight for the British Empire. The most important part was taken, however, by the Czecho-Slovak colonies in Russia and America.
The Czecho-Slovaks established an inter-party council which may well be described as part of the Provisional Government of Bohemia, whose programme is identical with that of the Czecho-Slovak Provisional Government in Paris. The inaugural meeting of the council in Prague was opened by the president of the Agrarian Party, Mr.
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