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THE MAKING OF A STATE
| TABLE OF RECOGNITIONS—continued | |||||
| DATE. | FRANCE. | ENGLAND. | ITALY. | AMERICA. | RUSSIA AND OTHER STATES |
| March 1918. | Congress amends the Immigration Law so as to allow Czechoslovak Legionaries recruited in the United States to return thither after the war in the same way as the American volunteers in the Allied armies. | ||||
| March 21, 1918, to April 24, 1918. | Signature of Treaty between the National Council and the Italian Government upon the creation of a Czechoslovak Legion in Italy; and solemn presentation of colours to Legion in Rome. | ||||
| May 22, 1918. | On behalf of the Foreign Office, Lord Robert Cecil recognizes the right of the Czechoslovak nation to complete independence; and (June 3rd) the British Government declares its readiness to recognize the National Council as the supreme authority of the Czechoslovak movement, and the Czechoslovak Legions as a belligerent Allied army. | ||||
| May 29, 1918. | The Government approves of the resolutions of the Rome Congress of Oppressed Hapsburg peoples and (June 28th) supplements its approval by declaring that all the Slavs must be freed from German and Austrian rule. | ||||
