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-
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