The Bohemian Review | ||
Jaroslav F. Smetanka, Editor. | ||
| Vol. II, No. 9. | SEPTEMBER 1918 | 10 cents a Copy |
AMERICAN RECOGNITION FOR
THE CZECHOSLOVAKS.
The Secretary of State made the following announcement on September 3, 1918:
The Czecho-Slovak peoples having taken up arms against the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, and having placed organized armies in the field which are waging war against those Empires under officers of their own nationality and in accordance with the rules and practices of civilized nations;
and The Czecho-Slovaks having, in prosecution of their in dependent purposes in the present war, confided supreme political authority to the Czecho-Slovak National Council,
The Government of the United States recognizes that a state of belligerency exists between the Czecho-Slovaks thus organized and the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
It also recognizes the Czecho-Slovak National Council as a de facto belligerent government clothed with proper authority to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slovaks.
The Government of the United States further declares that it is prepared to enter formally into relations with the de facto government thus recognized for the purpose of prosecuting the war against the common enemy, the Empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
