THE CZECHOSLOVAK PROBLEM
the policies of the American government. For that reason extensive quotations are not only justified, but in fact necessary. However, the survey would constitute a work of no inconsiderable proportions, and manifestly only its most important parts, relevant to our topic, can be reproduced here. Also, something of its scope and nature can be gathered from the Table of Contents, which is as follows:
Section 01. | Importance of the problem of the Slavs in the Austro -Hungarian Empire. |
Section 02. | Outline of the evolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
Section 03. | Slavs—the earliest known inhabitants of this region. |
Section 04. | Classification of the Slavs in Austria-Hungary. |
Section 05. | The Czecho-Slovaks. |
Section 06. | Hapsburg treatment of the Czecho-Slovaks. |
Section 07. | Rights of Bohemia to be considered as an independent and sovereign state merely united to Austria through the accident of having a common sovereign. |
Section 08. | The Jugo -Slavs. |
Section 09. | Hapsburg treatment of the Jugo-Slavs. |
Section 10. | The Magyars and the Non-Magyar races. |
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