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 Bohemia has not been conquered by Austria she joined Austria and Hungary as par inter pares; she is legally just as independent a state as Hungary, and by the same right. The right has been violated by the dynasty but law and justice cannot be affected by material force or so-called historical necessities  The Habsburgs have forfeited their rights in regard to Bohemia by their repeated and almost continuous treachery. Not the Czechs alone, but no nation can trust or accept Austro-Hungarian policy, for it is a policy of a single family, and only the advocates of mediaeval theocracy and absolutism can prefer the rights of one family to the rights of ten nations If Europe is to be regener-