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While foreign relations even in the United States are entrusted to the Executive, subject to consent to treaties by the Senate, the influence of Congress cannot of course be overlooked by anyone seeking to create a favorable atmosphere, in America, to a foreign cause, or involving any steps within the sphere of foreign policy. Rather early in the war, still during the period of American neutrality, an opportunity was afforded to present the Czechoslovak cause to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.

On December 6, 1915, Representative Meyer London, of New York, introduced in the House of Representatives a joint resolution, calling upon the President of the United States to offer mediation to the belligerents in Europe, and declaring it to be the judgment of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States that a durable peace could be established if certain