GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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20a - 36 - Diase's work, which Masaryk tells us, brought us together with the English diplomatic circles and not only served MasaryK's doors of all Ministarian in London, but also us in Washington, and I can say that in the Central European questions the most important report for President Wilson from the year 19l5 until the end of the war was: unsar expert report. I gave the memoirs, articles and information, di: me Prof. Masaryk and Dr. Benesch sent to America, by mediation of the Colonel's House to Wilson. It is interesting that at the moment when Austria wanted to close its special peace and for this reason sent Count Károlyi incognito to America, who presented the special peace proposal, not without us was decided; we were called and asked about our opinion, Man had come so far that we were later called to the regular meetings of the Allied Committee, which had direct relations with Wilson and the Washington government. In this allied committee, any fishing activity affecting the Bohemian country and Slovakia was not decided by the allied representatives, but handed over to me for a decision. I remember something that I want to tell you so that you could give Sshen what anointing denial and often how painful we were in deciding our own affairs. The "weighing of the bank "Eohemia" in New York asked the allied governments to lift the blockade in such a way that one could send to Bohemia Betrige, which did not exceed ten dollars. They referred to Dr. Scheiner, the Czech defense struggle etc. and demanded to create this exception in the Blockads in the interest of the poor Czech population. In the Allied Committee, all the allied representatives of the Union made this request a sign of approval, but when the request was submitted to me, I said: 'No, as long as Bohemia is a part of Austria-Hungary, no dollar can go there, even if one suffers hunger there and our ieuds tolerate it.