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The political amnesty of July, 1917, intended to appease the Slavs, had just the opposite effect: it only strengthened the Slav resistance which acquired fresh strength and impetus by the return of the old leaders. Kramar was hailed like a sovereign when he entered Prague again. He now became the recognised leader of the whole nation.
Dr. In his articles in the Narodni Listy, published during the war, Dr. Kramar advocated the liberation of small nations as proclaimed by the Entente. His organ, "the Narodni Listy, laid special stress on news favourable to our enemies and on the state of disruption of Austria, and indirectly invited Czechs to passive resistance." A copy of La Nation Tcheque was found in Dr.
Soukup, leader of the Socialists, secretary. Dr. Kramar greeted the assembly in the name of the presidency. Afterwards deputy Klofac delivered a speech in the name of the Socialists, and the vice-president of the Czech Union, supported by deputy Habermann, proposed that the presidency should itself select members of the council. The proposal was unanimously accepted.
One student who refused to wash the floor was beaten and confined to a dark cell. No wonder that many committed suicide. Dr. Vrbensky could tell how he used to get excited by the cry of the ill-treated prisoners. Even his nerves could not stand it. It is quite comprehensible, therefore, that Dr. Dr. Kramar and Dr. Rasin also had an opportunity of feeling the brutality of Polatchek and Teszinski.
Kramar wrote again in detail on the plans of German domination in Central Europe, in the Adriatic and in the Near East. In a book on Czech policy he declared that to prevent the realisation of these plans was the vital interest of the Czech nation: "A far-seeing Austrian policy should see in the Czech nation the safeguard of the independence of the State."
When Kramar in 1917 again took over the leadership of the Young Czech Party, which led to the amalgamation of four nationalist parties, a change took place also in the leadership of the Czech Social Democratic Party which hitherto was in the hands of a few demagogues and defeatists, such as Smeral, who dominated the majority of the members.
Kramar had finished, the aged Czech author Jirasek described the history of the National Theatre during the past fifty years, and concluded: "To-day as fifty years ago our nation is united without party distinction. We form a single front, and follow a single policy.
Kramar, one of the most moderate of the Czech leaders. Dr. Kramar was arrested on May 21, 1915, on a charge of high treason as the leader of the Young Czechs; together with him were also arrested his colleague, deputy Dr. Rasin, Mr. Cervinka, an editor of the Narodni Listy, and Zamazal, an accountant.
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