. Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government. independent Republics; namely, the CzechoslovakRepublic, Austria, and the Republic of Hungary. In fact, disin-tegration of Austria-Hungary added only one new independent stateto the nations of Europe, i. e., Czechoslovakia. By this I do not meanthat the Czechoslovak nation had never formed an independent state,on the contrary, it existed as such long before Austria-Hungary waseven dreamt of (Xth to the beginning of XVII century). What Iwish to make clear is, that dismemberment of Austria did not resultin a multitude of small states, as some writ
. Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government. independent Republics; namely, the CzechoslovakRepublic, Austria, and the Republic of Hungary. In fact, disin-tegration of Austria-Hungary added only one new independent stateto the nations of Europe, i. e., Czechoslovakia. By this I do not meanthat the Czechoslovak nation had never formed an independent state,on the contrary, it existed as such long before Austria-Hungary waseven dreamt of (Xth to the beginning of XVII century). What Iwish to make clear is, that dismemberment of Austria did not resultin a multitude of small states, as some writers would have it, andthat the situation in Central Europe has not been much complicatedby the new order of things. To recapitulate: Jugoslavia, or the Country of the Southern Slavs,is Serbia and Montenegro with the Southern Slavs of former Austriaadded; Czechoslovakia is the Republic of the Czechs and Slovaks andcomprises four countries, namely, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia andSlovakia, with the Qhrorusins (Hungarian Russians) who asked to be 196. .».x*«!^*»w^«?iSS!8a53^ov:^w:.:K¥: PROF. J. J. ZMRHAL CZECHO-SLOVAKIA added as an autonomous country and whose request was granted bythe Peace Conference. Hungarian Russia is the eastermost part ofthe Czechoslovak Republic (see the map). The language of theSlovaks is a beautiful variation of the Czech tongue, and differs solittle from it that he who knows one does not need to learn the otherto understand it. There were many Slovaks of note who wrote in theCzech language, as for example, Jan Kolar, Pavel Safarik and the reformation as well as today, the Slovaks used Czechbibles, song books and prayer books, and their culture has alwaysbeen one with that of the Czechs. They have been and are now infact one nation, have always and do today belong together and formone homogeneous whole. The only difference between them is that the Slovaks, separatedfrom the Czechs, became a part of Hungary, and hence to be thevictims of t
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