THE CZECHOSLOVAK QUESTION
poor and undiplomatic tactics indeed. (Mr. Theodore Roosevelt did discuss the matter publicly, in the Washington Post, Kansas City Star, and other papers.) An executive and therefore confidential session of the committee was fixed for the following day, February 6, 1918, and at Senator Stone’s suggestion a letter was written to him, as chairman of the committee, which was laid by him before that body when it met. (See Appendix.) Whether or not knowledge of the letter ever reached Mr. Wilson is, of course, unknown, but the fact remains that the resolution was never acted upon.
The Czechoslovaks of America gave to the country of their birth not only money and time and political support of a highly important nature, but they also gave three thousand volunteers to the Czechoslovak forces in Europe, a very creditable number when it is considered that only those were recruited, for these forces, who were not subject to the draft. The question of the return of these men to the United States, particularly should the cause fail, presented a grave problem. In January, 1918, there was introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution (H. J. Res. 212), permitting the return to this country of men who had fought in the Allied armies. This
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