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8Sa * 72 Slovak people, behind the government of the United States with their own people in struggle for the freedom of the people and of the world to manifest. But already before, on 29. May, Masaryk achieves a success against the original explanation of Wilson, The hard Anglosaxon here deviates from the tough Czechoslovak, meanwhile only customs for customs, but he did not yet declare determined, but already clearly that the last word had been said on the way of concessions to Austria. On July 2: Wilson's voice already sounds much more definite. The Secretary of State Robert Lansing firmly declares that the position of the United States means complete liberation, the yoke of the old Monarchy. In these days Prof. Masaryk writes to Chicago: "The development of our' thing can satisfy us. It is obvious that the efforts to establish an army were right. Soon after, on August 8th, Karl Pergler was appointed delegate of the Czechoslovak National Council of Paris in Washington, which he officially represented here. Finally, the 3. The United States, on behalf of President Wilson and through Lansing's mouth to the hands of Prof. T.G.Masaryks, President of the National Council, gave the following declaration: "The Czechoslovak people, who raised arms against Germany and Austria and organized an army and placed it in the field, where it waged war with these emperors under their own officers and in accordance with the rules of the civilized world, and because the Czechoslowaks, pursuing the goal of their independence in this war, created their supreme political authority in their own National Council the government of the United States acknowledges that the state of hostility exists between the so organized Czechoslovakians and the German and the Austro-Hungarian empires. At the same time, it recognizes the Czech-Dlovak National Council in Paris as the de facto war-ridden government, which has full authority to lead the military and political Czechoslovak affairs, the director of the United States also declares that it is willing to formally join this de facto recognized government in order to jointly - 73 -