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 ing in the best spirit of a modern democracy, without narrow calculation of sacrifice and immediate reward. “The Czecho-Slovaks” London 1917

We will do nothing to oppose your just desire for independence and free national expansion

The transformation of Austria-Hungary into a state of nationalities, in the sense of Slay demands, is equivalent to the defeat of Germany, Deutsche Politik, Nov. 23, 1917