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Bohemian (Czech) National Alliance
OF AMERICA
OF AMERICA
3737 WEST 26th STREET
DR. J. P. PECIVAL, President
MRS ANNA ŠTOLPA, Vice-President
JAROSLAV ZMRHAL, Secretary
VOJTA BENEŠ, Executive Sec'y
ADOLF LONEK, Treasurer
Jews in the Czecho-
Slovak State
Slovak State
CHICAGO EVENING AMERICAN
SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1918
The Chicago Evening American published the following Editorial concerning Jews in Bohemia:
This column has received letters resenting the suggestion that nations are sometimes not self-governing because they don't know how, or don't deserve to govern themselves.
Bohemia, for instance, looking forward to "self-determination", promptly publishes an order expelling all Jews. This takes Bohemia back to the savagery of Portugal or Spain in the Middle Ages.
Mr. Masaryk, advocate of Bohemian "self-determination", cables over that he had ordered the cancellation of that rule expelling Jews. What Bohemia does, not what Mr. Masaryk cables, settles Bohemia's fitness to rule herself.
A country that has not advanced far enough to grant freedom to others is too backward to deserve liberty for itself—many countries in Europe will find that out.THE ANSWER:
