REFERENCES
(1) Published in English as The Making of a State. (George Allen & Unwin. 218.)
(2) At that time aviation had hardly started and the plans of the pan-Germans seemed to me nothing more than childish phantasies.
(3) At these meetings it was decided that Dr. Lev Sychrava should go abroad. He left Prague in the second half of September and was the first of the Czechs who proceeded abroad with expressly revolutionary aims.
(4) This refers to the battle at which the Czechs were defeated in 1620.
(5) After a long search I found these documents unharmed in 1922.
(6) The Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Vienna had sent it to the Ministry of the Interior, whence Machar had obtained it through Kovanda.
(7) My information about the police was obtained from Jan Hájek, with whom I had been in touch ever since my stay in Paris. He was employed at the headquarters of the gendarmerie, and supplied very valuable and copious information, for which he ran many risks.
(8) One of our double postcards was seized by the authorities and after being deciphered it served as a piece of incriminating evidence in the proceedings which ensued. The fact that this was the only postcard which was seized in this way shows that on the whole our arrangements worked well.
(9) Dr. Rašín was arrested a few days later.
(10) Masaryk pointed out that circumstances might make it necessary to take active measures at home; for example, to organize manifestos of dissatisfaction, demonstrations, a secret printing press like that used in Belgium against the Germans, the dissemination of illicit newspapers, reports, etc., but it must be done cautiously and at the right time, and there must be no unnecessary rushing into provocative acts which would lead to persecution. Masaryk always emphasized these points.
(11) Dr. Kramář expressed this view to me in very emphatic terms.
(12) At that time, during the investment of Cracow, the enthusiasm for the Russians was at its height among all sections of our population.
(13) Captain Voska’s activities in America, with the assistance of the American and British authorities, belongs largely to another aspect of our revolutionary movement. It was described in detail by President Masaryk in his memoirs.
(14) With reference to all these reports I should like to make the following observations:
1. They were sometimes intentionally written in an optimistic tone, in order to prevent our people at home from losing courage at a period of Allied military defeats. On other occasions they were given a somewhat pessimistic colouring when we wanted them to produce a definite reaction in Prague, i.e. more activity against Austria or other measures which we demanded.
This will explain some of the strong terms which I used from time to time.
2. They contain a number of inexact details either about military successes or diplomatic negotiations on both sides. I reproduced the items of information as I received them, and I did not always have the advantage of first-hand sources.
