Bohemia; a brief evaluation of Bohemia's contribution to civilization/Quotations
“No lapse of time, no defeat of hopes, seems sufficient to reconcile the Czechs of Bohemia to incorporation with Austria.”
“The civilized world knows that they (the aims of Allies) include the liberation of Italians, Slavs. Roumanians, and Czecho-Slovaks from foreign domination.”
EXTRACT FROM THE ALLIES’ REPLY TO PRESIDENT
WOODROW WILSON’S NOTE.
“Relying at this hostorical moment upon the natural right of each nation to self determination and free development, strengthened further by irrevocable historical rights and state papers of undoubted validity, we shall demand at the head of our people the union of all branches of the Czecho-Slovak nation into one domecratic Bohemian state which shall include the Slovak branch connected geographically with the historical Bohemian fatherland.”
DECLARATION OF THE BOHEMIAN (CZECH) DEPUTIES IN THE
VIENNA PARLIAMENT, MAY 30, 1917.
“Bohemia recreated should never again be overwhelmed, and by her very existence will destroy the nightmare of a German-Magyar hegemony of Europe.”
“But the liberation of the Czechs would not be complete unless their close kinsmen the Slovaks were included in the new Bohemian State; and every reason alike of politics, race, and geography tells overwhelmingly in favour of such an arrangement. The Slovaks, who would to the last man welcome the change, have long suffered from the gross tyranny of Magyar rule.”
“And still, in spite of all this unfair treatment the Bohemians stand at the head of all the Austrian nationalities in the matter of education.”
“The master of Bohemia is the master of Europe.”
“The master of Bohemia is the master of EuropeBISMARCK.
“In the words of Bismarck” Bohemia is a fortress created by God Himself.” But she must become the fortress, not of Reaction, but of Liberty.”
“It must be made impossible for Prussian power to hold the road to Constantinople and Bagdad. One of the most effective bars would be a Czech-Slovak state and that free state, I confidently hope, will emerge from the contest.”
“But we, on the contrary, will do nothing to oppose Bohemians’ just desire for independence and free national expansion.”
PRUSSIAN HIGH COMMAND, on 8th, JULY 1866.
(in War Againt Austria.)
“Without Bohemia the Slav Cause is forever lost. It is the head, the advance guard of all the Slavs.”
“To work for Austria’s salvation is to work against Italy, against Roumania, against Serbia and the Southern Slavs, against Bohemia and against Russia.
In fine, any kind of Austria-Hungary, ruled by the Hapsburgs, is the German vanguard for an advance into Asia and Africa. On the terms, Austrophilism, if conscious, is political perversity, if unconscious, political naivete.”