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Europe, I hope, also realizes the awful moral situation of a nation which wholly sympathizes with the Allies, but whose sons, by the mere mechanical or ganization of militarism, are forced to fight against those whom they consider as Allies and whom they love as brethren.

T. G. Masaryk
In New Europe, January 25, 1917

The international position of Bohemia after the war will be the truest test of victory . . When once a free Bohemia emerges in the heart of Europe we shall know that the

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