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RV 44

Wilson, Boni & Liveright, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. )

The reference I have italicized is significant, for Mr. Wilson could not speak fortuitously of a proud Bohemian state. Here was evidence that the American President not only was considering the Czech problem, but, also, that he was leaning toward the Czech claim, advanced frequently and included in the memorandums delivered to Colonel House, that legally the Czech (Bohemian) state had never ceased to exist.

This address was important for another reason. For the first time there was indication that Mr. Wilson had commenced to look upon the Austro-Hungarian problem in the light of contentions advanced by the French publicist, Mr. Andre Chéradame. (See especially this author’s Pan-Germany, the Disease and Cure, and The Pan-German Plot Unmasked, The Atlantic Monthly Press. ) In the first of these works the author holds that Bohemia dominates all Europe and that none of the subject nationalities can be really freed unless Bohemia is liberated. Evidence of Mr. Wilson’s virtual adoption of Chéradame’s views is even clearer in his speech to the American Federation of Labor Convention at Buffalo, November 12, 1917. (Addresses and Messages of Woodrow Wilson, Boni