ing in the best spirit of a modern democracy, without narrow calculation of sacrifice and immediate reward.
We will do nothing to oppose your just desire for independence and free national expansion . . .
From a proclamation “To the Inhabitants of the Glorious Kingdom of Bohemia!” issued by the Prussian High Command, July, 1866
The transformation of Austria-Hungary into a state of nationalities, in the sense of Slay demands, is equivalent to the defeat of Germany,
Deutsche Politik, Nov. 23, 1917
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