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No lapse of time, no defeat of hopes, seems sufficient to reconcile the Czechs of Bohemia to incorporation with Austria.

President Wilson
“The State”, New York 1894

 

When this unique . . . monarchy (Austria-Hungary) instead of giving equal justice to all, will allow one nation to dominate the others, when the Slavs will be made a subject race . . . then also nature will claim her own and her reaction will turn civil peace into discord, hopes into dispair, and will finally cause hatred

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