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84 69 - VIII. Conclusion On the most joyful days of the Czechoslovak America, the days of Prof. Masaryk's arrival, when he entered the ground of the United States on his journey around the world, were to end his struggle for peace there, on the scene where the focus of the world history had been transferred. Sdon at the moment when news about the attempts by Sixtus of Parma is coming to the world, Prof. Masaryk has good news from Paris about the dangers of these combinations. Not perhaps for France, but rather for England, whose prime minister, together with President Wilson, will bring together at the end of December and at the beginning of January l9l8 their rallies for the relief of Austria-Hungary. On the day we read Lloyd George's words, "We are not fighting to destroy Austria-Hungary," and the words of Wilson that followed from the 8th century. We all trembled, we observed with Schreaken, that the question of peace had entered the dangerous stage of attempts to isolate Austria and Hungary, with which he reached the hand of Vienna for reconciliation in faith. Our people in America, through Wilson's words: "The peoples of Austria, whose piatz we wish to see secure among the peoples, should be disappointed with the greatest possible opportunity for autonomous development", saw in everything a shameful retreat and the beginning of a development that will end in success, the peace negotiations with our total defeat. All organizations then issued a manifesto against the meagerness in our ranks, they drove in the cities in all directions, but the first impression about the demonstrations of the two statesmen was very bad. A few days later, the leaves brought out the explanation of Masaryk's Russia, about the impossibility of a peace, about that Austria-Hungary did not faehi:; was to free his fragile yoke from the messengership against Germany and that it was in any case to the final destruction of the - 7 -