THE CZECHOSLOVAK QUESTION
listed for service with Czechoslovak, Polish, or other independent forces attached to the United States Army or to the army of any one of the co-belligerents of the United States in the present war,” who may apply for readmission within one year after the termination of the war.
The resolution was supported by a report, dated March 2, 1918, which speaks very highly of the Czechoslovak forces, and it also had the support of the Department of Labor in the form of a letter by the then Assistant Secretary, Louis F. Post.
The resolution became law after it obtained the signature of the President. The incident affords an interesting recognition, both legislative and executive, of revolutionary forces which as yet had not been recognized in the usual forms observed in international intercourse and international law. Just what effect under international law this sort of recognition might have had cannot be gone into here, but the international lawyer is afforded an interesting subject for speculation.
When Dr. Masaryk arrived in Washington he was welcomed at the Union Station of the capital by twenty-seven members of the House and Senate. A list of their names has been saved and they may, therefore, be registered here: Sabath,
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