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124 abroad is concerned it is proven that the accused Kramář was in communication with the publishers, propagators, and editors of certain treasonable newspapers and publications, and especially with Brancianinov, Bobrinski, Denis, Masaryk, Pavlů, Propper, and others; that further he was a contributing editor of Novoje Zveno, which before and after the outbreak of war the dismembennent of the Monarchy was openly demanded, and in which paper Dr Kramář's name conspicuously appeared on the titlepage. It is especially to be mentioned that between the thoughts, aims, and expressions of these treasonable publications on the one hand, and the accused and the Národní Listy on the other, there is a suspicious similarity.

"2. Dr Kramář used the Národní Listy as the organ of his politics, and exercised over them a decisive influence, but Rašín as the co-editor was also actve in the same sense as Kramář, even though his activity did not reach the same dimensions, his sphere being principally economics and finance. Three articles, namely, those of August 4th, 1914, January 1st, 1916, and April 1916, give special proof of Kramář's activity in the Národní Listy. In them Dr Kramář manifests enthusiasm for the liberation of small nations to be accomplished in case of Allied victory in the world war, and for the development which will come to his nation awaking from sleep and rising