tion who has done great service to civilization and who can proudly range itself among the most civilized, economically developed and most democratic nations of Europe.
This is the firm and unanimouns will of the nation:
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We have assembled here today as the legitimate representatives of the Czechoslovak nation in order to manifest unmistakably that the whole nation is unanimous as it never was before, and that it stands like a rock behind the memorable and historic declarations of its deputies.
Smetana’s Hall in the Prague “Representation House”, Scene of the Great Assembly of April 13, 1918.
So we are standing here, firmly convinced of the ultimate victory of Justice, of the victory of Right over Might, of Liberty over Tyranny, of Democracy over Privilege, and of Truth over Falsehood and Deceit.
At the crossroads of History, we hereby swear on the glorious memory of our ancestors, before the eyes of the sorrow-stricken nation, and on the graves of those who have fallen for the cause of liberty, and promise today and for all eternity:
We will hold on and will never give way!
Faithful in all our work, struggles and sufferings, faithful unto death!
We will hold on until Victory!
We will hold on until our nation obtains independence.
Long live the Czechoslovak Nation!
Let our nation grow and flourish freely in all its lands and in the great family of nations, for the welfare of its own as well as for the welfare of the future liberated humanity!
THE JUGOSLAV DECLARATION.
After Jirásek’s speech, the hymn “Bývali Čechové” was sung whereupon the President asked Dr. Ante Pavelič, deputy to the Croatian Diet, to speak in the name of the Jugoslav nation. He said:
“Ladies and gentlemen: As the representative of the united nation of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, I would like to thank you at this memorable meeting for your
