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49 86 wisely to the Czech army that it should not afflict anywhere to the Bolsheviks, meet them at any cost and march as calmly as possible and without weapons to the East. - The army would certainly have acted according to these indications. And would perhaps have reached Wladivostok, where they would have been interned, under great difficulties, because the allies had no interest in some Tausand man, of whom they suspected that they vyjain? were also infected with Bolshevik poison and, if needed on the battlefield, they would have to travel half the world to reach the kmpf West Front, where they would need to undergo new Heffenäbungenk LYX Horichumg, which they made known with the changed conditions of the West Front. - As an internal, unreliable team, however, the Czech army decided that the leaders of the Czech freedom struggle would be worthless to other Romupf. The allies would never have been so committed to the Czech cause and would have left the methods of Czech independence rather to the given circumstances, as they did at the peace conference. It would certainly not have come to Lloyd George's enthusiastic statement, nor to the admiration and tribute of the French press, which in a few months had caused a complete upheaval in the public opinion of the United Anvtanke Steaten over the Czechoslovak independence I victorious Vornicnen. And this turbulence of the public opinion of the Allied states was caused nuy only by V regiments by dag weaponry dechechischenkiitists in Siberia and by far-reaching results in the struggle with the Bolsheviks. And that the Czech army was active and fought with the Bolshevik formations is an exclusive merit of General Gajda, who declared war against the prohibition of Professor Masaryk and despite the express wish of Professor Maxas with his formations to the Bolsheviks. This failure to comply with the order of Prof. Masaryk's 1 had definitely saved the public opinion of the Entente states in favour of the Czech cause. But it was a failure, which only badly tolerates every professor nature - and never forgets. So, too, this tension between Professor Masaryc and Gajda. Professor Masaryk was still trying at the last moment to save the peaceful advance of the Czech military through the repressive 1 addressed to Fline TeğegrammLo Mexa in Siberia: "Tell Gajda that he should not do anything stupid about Vertiamensleelte". ./. ON0ed