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100 - 8 - to prevent intervention by the Prague Staáthalter, Count Thun. Masaryk motivated these steps with the words: "I feared that the Jews would be ill-treated abroad and would make my activity difficult" (page 26). And a further fallacy is drawn, of course only by Czechs who seem politically unlearnable, namely that the pa- rallelicity of the Czech-Jewish alliance of emigration from once and today also the parallelity of political success today and once in itself closes. As in everyday life, however, the originality of politics is usually a necessary prerequisite for success. The essential copy of one-sided working methods, which at other times can easily prove useful, is all too easily the cause of failure and politically doomed to failure. In these basic facts lies all the inconsistency of the slogan "1gl8" highlighted by Benesch today also for the Czech side. The world political conflict and the war goal of Judaism were up to l9l8 other than in the present world eøringen. They lay politically in the direction of a securing of the Jewish diaspora throughout the world, which seemed most likely to be guaranteed in the desired state division of the Jews-satified Eastern Europe and the South-East, and which could be imposed hypothe- ically as a constitutional frundpelitik by the peace conference, especially in newly established states such as Czechoslovakia. Political admissions and works of Jewish jurisprudence (in particular the book of Palestinian lawyer Dr. Nathan F e i n - b e r g on the Jewish question at the peace conference of l9l9-l920, published in Paris in 1929) clearly show this line. Already on 29 October 19l3 and then a second time a few days before the outbreak of the World War, on 28 July 1914, the English government sent the "United Jewish Committee" in London the official notice that, in view of the territorial changes in the Balkan wars, the British government intended to protect religious freedom and other rights of minorities demanded by the Jews. During the World War, some 30 Jewish congresses and assemblies met in the various countries of Europe with the same demands, such as 19l6 in South Africa and 1917 in Canada. In the United States, too, the idea of a Jewish congress by Louis D e m b i t z + B r a nd e i s, the patron -6 - 38689