“ We welcome these visitors .these ambassadors from a nation so ancient, so new. They confirm to us the spirit which we had already surmised in the soul of the whole Bohemian people. Never again, they say, and we believe, shall Bohemia return underground. Bohemia will have victory now, in the light of day, or , in the light of day, extermination. They are ruthless for their rights. But not one inch of German soil do they demand. Not one German right, even in Bohemia, do they ask us to extinguish.
Germans, in a minority, have existed in Bohemia for ages. ”

“ When we look at Siberia and see the long lines of Czechoslovak armies|, ex-prisoners of war, fighting their way to Vladivostok, to San Francisco, to New York, to the Western front, to hurl themselves against the Germans, we know the valor of Bohemia. When we listen to the Czechoslovak political leaders, in their proclamations at Prague and in their conversations at Washington, we know the morality, the democratic morality, the Christian morality, the invincible morality of Bohemia. ”

“ They will have a right to continue to exist there. The Masaryks do not speak of their extermination or of their expulsion, or even of their exclusion from any political right or from any civil right whatsoever, of office or of property or of language. ”