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VĚSTNÍK
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Wednesday, October 23, 1968
tembcr 3rd by an agreement signed by
Beneš and Robert Cecil, which gave the
Czechoslovak National Council the au-
thority to appoint diplomatic repre-
sentatives in London. Xt also gave it
the right to send representatives to
Alied conferences at which Czecho-
slovak interests would be díscussed
and to conclude economic loans with
Great Britain. At about the same time,
Prof. Masaryk got the US government
to recognize the Czechoslovak National
Council as the de íacto Czech govern-
ment. An agreement soon followed with
the governments oí France, on Sep-
tember 28, wherein France committed
itself to support the reestablishment of
Czechoslovakia within its former his-
torie boundaries. On October 3rd, O-r-
lando, in the namc of the Italian gov~
ernment announced his governmenťs
recognition of the National Council.
♦ ♦
The actual reestablishment of the
Czechoslovak statě was now only a
matter of time, and the only ťhing left
to be doně was to prepare the Czecho-
slovak people to assume the role of
goveming themselves and deciding
their own fate and future.
♦ ♦
The Czechoslovak National Commit-
tee was formed in Prague on 13 July
1918 as the highest organ of the Czech-
oslovak government. Its chairman be-
came Ur. Kramař; Svehla and Klofac
were elected as Viee Chairmen, and Dr.
Soukup as Administrativě Secretary.
This 38-member National Committee
was the basis for the future re volu-
tionary and constitutional National
Assembly. Its mam task was to prepare
the wal for the řevólutionary takeover
at the appropriate time. In order to ac-
complish this it was necessary to set
up local national committees all over
Czechoslovakia.
♦ ♦
Czech representatives in Vienna
were concertedly berating the outdated
policies of the Hapsburg monarchy.
The leaders in the royal ruling circles
were blind and unreceptive to Czech
demands and pursued unreasonable in-
terna! policies and fought the victor-
ious revolt against the monarchy. On
the 2Sth of September, the National
Committee announced that they wánt-
ed no more favors from Vienna. On
October 2nd, the Viennese parliament
announced drastic maximum measures.
Particularly nbticed was the threat of
Stanek, who stated that Vienna would
insist on having representatives of the
Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk
(1850 - 1937)
President, First Czechoslovak
Republic — 1918 to 1935
Dieil 11 Sept. 1937
Czechoslovak Brigades as the legiti-
mate spokesmen at the peaee con-
ferenee table. On October 4th, the
Viennese government requested Presi-
dent Wilson for an armistice. On Oc-
tober I2th the Czechs rejected a pro-
posal for a federation of States within
the Hapsburg monarchy in a meeting
with the Austrian emperor, and in-
sisted on the creation of a separate and
independent Czechoslovak statě with-
out delay.
Decisive events began happening ono
after another. On October 14th, Dr.
Beneš announced to the Allies the
creation of a temporary Czechoslovak
government and the naming of diplo-
matic representatives throughout the
various capitals. He announced that
Prof. Masaryk had been elected as
temporary president and finance min-
ister, Dr. Beneš himself as foreign
minister and minister of the interior,
and Dr. Stefanik as minister of war.
On October IGth, Emperor Charles is-
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suecl a manifeste about the transitům
of Austria from a monarchy to unified
statě without mentioning the status of
the Czech territories (Hungary). The
Czech nation, through their National
Committee, rejected this manifeste- on
October 19.
It was too lato for the Austro-Hun-
garian Empire. The war thwarted the
emperroťs efforts to savé the mon-
archy; on October 18, Masaryk issued a
statement proclaiming tlie indepen-
dence o£ the Czechoslovak people,
known to the nation and worlcl later as
the Washington Declaration.
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In Masaryků proclamation, it was
asserted that the Czechoslovak statě
would be a republic, The same day,
President Wilson replied to the peaee
proposal of the Austro-Hungarian
government, In iris reply, he statéd
that the fate of the Austro-Hungarian
empíre was now in the hands of the
Czechoslovak,s and Jugoslavs. In the
meantime, other Allied governments
had extended recognition to the tem-
porary Czech government, and the fu-
ture of their nation was in the hands
of the people themselves.
For the future Czechoslovak stale,
it was important that representatives
of Carpatho-Ruthenia attend the Con-
ference of Smaller Nations of Central
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