WOODROW WILSON
spokesmen with Mr. Wilson, came on July 4, 1918, when a pilgrimage was organized of citizens of foreign descent to the tomb of Washington on the presidential yacht, The Mayflower. Each nationality had a representative in the group which accompanied the President on his trip, and the Czech delegate was in a position to inform the President that the Czech deputies, at a meeting in Prague on May 16, 1918, had declared for a League of Nations, of which Mr. Wilson was even then an advocate. The diplomatic corps participated in this pilgrimage and there was some disappointment in Czech circles that an invitation was not extended to Dr. Masaryk. But at that time the Czechoslovak National Council had not been recognized by the United States, though it had received recognition by the French Government.
While in America, Dr. Masaryk prepared for the State Department and President Wilson certain memoranda. The first of these was a survey of the Czechoslovak problem, largely historical, and requires merely to be referred to, since Dr. Masaryk himself evidently did not attribute to it special diplomatic importance, the same document appearing textually in the Washington Post
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