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Rh England, and their employment in the enemy armies. Furthermore, after the outbreak of war there appeared among a certain portion of the Czech inhabitants of the Monarchy a number of cases showing not only a state of mind inimical to the State, but acts which might seriously injure the successful prosecution of the war as far as economic and military affairs are concerned.

"The decision further considers as proven that long before the outbreak of war some Czech politicians, especially Kramář, had initiated and fostered a movement at congresses and on other occasions which, masquerading as Neoslavism, and, under the motto of Slav Reciprocity, developed from an apparently cultural movement into an actively treasonable one, in that it was preparing for the separation of the Czecho-Slovak countries from the Empire. According to the opinion of the military court this movement, of which the accused Kramář was one of the originators, instigators, and leaders—the accused Rašín took part in it only in a remote way—is the main cause of all the treasonable acts at home and abroad, behind the lines and at the front.

"The causal connection between these events and the accused—which did not cease even after the outbreak of war—is to be deduced from the following circumstances:—

"1. As far as the revolutionary propaganda