3. Mistakes occur in a few details of facts, but I always defined accurately the policy of ourselves, the Allies and Central Powers as a whole. In the same way I gave an accurate estimate of various individual events. Moreover, I received prompt and accurate information about all the main events.
4. There are some details which are repeated in nearly all the reports. This applies particularly to the wish that we abroad should not be repudiated by our politicians at home, that they should not relax their revolutionary activity—since not even the Allies would give us something for nothing—and that at all costs a continuous communication should be maintained between Prague and us.
(15) I set off for Holland on the very next day and spent Christmas Eve suffering from seasickness on the steamer. On the day after I met Dr. B. Štěpánek at Amsterdam. On this trip I spent two weeks in Rotterdam, where I lived under the name of M. Leblanc. The English authorities took me for an Austrian spy and would not let me return to London. When, finally, with great difficulty I did manage to land in England I was arrested, taken to London and imprisoned. Masaryk’s intervention led to my release, and on January 11, 1916, I returned to Paris. I may mention that this was not the last occasion upon which I was imprisoned by the Allied authorities. The English locked me up three times—in each case only for a short period until matters were cleared up—and the French twice.
(16) In my third report to Prague, which was based upon the notes I took at that time, I wrote as follows on the subject of Masaryk’s discussions with Briand:
“Professor Masaryk then came to Paris and discussed matters with a number of influential politicians. He was received by Briand who said to him verbatim: We French have always entertained keen sympathies for the Czech nation, and these sympathies have been strengthened by the war. I assure you that France will not forget your aspirations, which we share, and we shall do everything in order that the Czechs may obtain their independence. We will not speak about the details now, but as far as the chief point of your claim is concerned we are in agreement. Deschanel, who to-day is powerful and influential, expressed himself similarly. We have France entirely on our side.”
(17) Quoted from the notes which I took at the time. Protopopov was then on his well-known journey in Western Europe.
(18) In his pamphlet entitled In the Czech Service (Prague 1921), Dürich, speaking of Crkal (p. 29), says that I recommended him for the journey to Russia. I never recommended Crkal to anybody. From the first moment when I saw his work and attitude in the colony at Paris I was consistently opposed to him. All of us in the secretariat of the National Council, with the exception of Dürich, shared this point of view.
(19) From my daily notes during 1916 and 1917.
(20) Our purpose in arranging this sham arrest was to avert the suspicion of the Austrian authorities from people who were apparently being interfered with by the Allied authorities. In this way we succeeded in sending home a number of important messages.
(21) This was my second meeting with Milyukov. I had met him for the first time at Paris on May 29, 1916, when, as a member of the Russian Parliamentary Delegation, he was making a tour of the Allied countries of Western Europe with a number of his colleagues. This delegation on which Protopopov, then Minister of the Interior, was also serving caused considerable agitation in London and Paris on account of its political views and demands. On that