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Rh from humiliation to a new life. The Czech nation will develop its strength and attain its uniﬁcation and organisation only after the catastrophe to which this war must lead. The style of this paper was in other respects also hostile to the Monarchy for a certain period after the outbreak of war.

"The intentional emphasis of news favourable to our enemies, but unfavourable to us, the praise of the political and economic conditions of our enemies, the disparagement of the conditions in our Monarchy, a hidden appeal for passive resistance to the necessities of war, and especially to the first two war loans, supplied the key to the news printed.

"3. A copy of the periodical, La Nation tchèque, published in France, contains several articles dealing in a sharp and detailed manner with the thoughts and aims of the treasonable propaganda above described. This periodical, which manifestly illustrates the programme of Kramář and his followers, was found in Kramář's coat-pocket when he was imprisoned, and his excuse that the periodical was uncut, and that he did not know its contents, is, as was proven, untrue. The publisher of the periodical, La Nation tchèque, is Professor Denis, Kramář's friend, then a regular contributor to the Národní Listy; the secretary of the Paris periodical is Kepl, then the Paris corre-