“ The four Great Powers, remaining united against Germany, took stock of their resources and of the enemy’s strength, and realized that they were not reduced to the necessity of accepting a compromise. Besids, whatever willingness there had been in England and America to compromise, was destroyed by Germany’s faithlessness and greed in the East and by Austria’s two-faced policy. ”

“ While Poland and America spoke about autonomy for the races of Austria, the Czechoslovak elected representatives voted unanimously for an independent Bohemia, and the Slavs of Southern Austria demanded openly united Jugoslavia. They cannot and will not fail in their brave struggle for freedom. ”

“ Under Italian auspices the Czechs, Jugoslavs, Poles and Roumanians are being brought together for the purpose of creating a free federation of national states in place of the medieval Hapsburg empire. ”