CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENCE
Hardy, Buchanan, Slayden, Lobeck, Mansfield, Hitchcock, Sloan, Stephens, Good, Kenyon, Medill, McCormick, McAndrews, Lewis, Igoe, Dyer, Hayes, Baker, Doremus, Pomerene, Wealty, Smith, Eagan, Cody, Burnett, Barnhart, Van Dyke.
Thereafter the Czechoslovak problem came up often enough. Thus, on October 16 , 1918, Representative Sabath delivered an address in which he embodied a whole anti-Austrian article, originally appearing in the Yale Review and reprinted in pamphlet form under the title of Should Austria-Hungary Exist? In the Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge declared openly for the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovak independence.
The problem of Austria-Hungary ceased to be regarded as outside the sphere of American interests and Czechoslovaks were no more defending an unknown cause.
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