“ After three hundred years of slavery there is once more free Bohemia. The black and yellow flag no longer disfigures the fair vistas of Prague and the Austrian double eagle, that mean bird of prey, has been torn down from the public buildings of the Czech cities. The Czechoslovak republic is a reality.
In the life of nations a century is but a day. Less than a hundred years ago a dozen men were gathered in one of the ancient palaces of Prague; one of the men said, half in fun and half in earnest, that should the ceiling fall down on them, it would be the end of the Czech nation. ”

“ But the Czechs will not and cannot forget soon that hundreds of thousands of their best men were killed senselessly, in vain, victims to the ambition and criminal greed of hated rulers who drove the Czechs to the front to be killed by their own friends. ”

“ To such a pass was reduced that brave people which once upon a time successfully repelled the attacks of almost all Europe. As recently as last winter the leaders of the revolution were in despair; the Germans were victorious and the Allies maintained a cool attitude toward the aspirations of the Czechoslovaks. ”