alliance would make any future attempts of the Germans for domination in Central and Eastern Europe impossible.
5. If conditions in Czechoslovakia are not allowed to grow desperate, our Republic is destined to play the role of a bulwark against bolshevism. The class differences in Bohemia are not so acute as elsewhere, and titles and large land ownership have been abolished. There are no illiterates except in some parts of Slovakia and there is no bolshevik party, although the Germans and the Magyars are doing their best to corrupt our workers and soldiers by means of insiduous propaganda.
It may be truly said that on the fate of Czecho-Slovakia depends the fate of the rest of Europe, including Great Britain. In Bohemia Great Britain has her best friend and most devoted Ally. If Bohemia is allowed to fall, however, then the whole of Central Europe is bound to fall prey to bolshevism, which will soon overcome even Western Europe. The interests of England are inevitably bound up with the fate of Czecho-Slovakia. For this reason the friendship between England and Bohemia is not merely the concern of these two countries. It is, a question of international importance. It is a vital question for Great Britain, for us and for the whole of Europe.
London, April 20th, 1919.
