“ For more than a thousand years Bohemia and Moravia with parts of Silesia have been settled by Slavs, and during all that time the Czechs had to fight to keep their country from being Germanized. During the last three hundred years some frontier districts succumbed to the German invasion, and recent political history of Austria turned mainly on the question of erecting the districts with apparent German majority into the separate province of German Bohemia, the plan being to suppress the Czech minorities and later concentrate all energy on Germanizing what remained of the Czechs. ”

“ As far as Germans of Bohemia and Moravia are concerned, all evidence shows that with the exception of professional agitators they are quite satisfied to stay out of Germany, and most of those who can talk the Bohemian language already call themselves Czechs. ”

“ The interests of the new Czechoslovak Republic are on the whole carefully guarded in the peace terms submitted to Germany and Austria, and even though the Czechoslovaks, together with the other states that benefited by the break-up of the Austrian empire, are expected to make a contribution to the war expenses of the Allies, the Czechoslovak people cordially approve the work of the Peace Conference, as far as it has been made public. ”