New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

Subject Peoples Getting Together
For First Time in History to
Resist Oppression

er1ckery at the expense of many small
nationalities. Therefore, why should
Austria continue to exist? AS all the
oppressed peoples of Austria Hungary
feel thus about it and the friendship
OF Italy has been secured for their
aims, 1t is possible to erect barrier
across Middle Europe from the Baltic
to the Adriatic which will control the
Danube and the rail routes to Constan-
tinople and the Black Sea. In fighting
for her age-old independence, Bohemia
Is fighting for the safety of democracy
for the world.
There are nineteen nations from the
Baltic to Greece" said he "This pecu-
liar zone is the barrier of Germany to-
ward the East. Mitteleuropa is what
the Holy Roman Empire was, plan
for subjugating the East. Austria, to-
day, while nominally free, actually is
governed from Berlin. Austria never
could be opposed to Germany. The idea
of Germany is that Germans are super
human and the Slavs are slaves. The
phrase, 'BerlinBagdad,' could be bet
ter expressed 'Berlin-Cairo.' Africa is
Germany's aim. Germany thinks of
mastering Europe, Asia, Africa. The
Allies are thinking of all countries, the
new with the old. The new world may
be the leader Of all mankind.
"The programme which the Bohs-
misns, Poles and South Slavs and other
small nationalities are urging is not
that of mastering Germany geograph-
ically, but the necessary plans of hu-
ananity. We care not for war power,
but for world based on the agree
ments of free nations. 1t will be Amer
ica that will aid most in settling this
struggle for the high aims of mankind.
The next stage of the evolution in the
minds of the Germans is the control
of Great Britain and the United States.
1t is the problem of socialism which
we have before us. By socialism we
mean that the rights of the small man
as we'll as those of the great man are
entitled to be recognized. The same
idea extends to international relations.
Small nations have the same rights as
large nations.
"There are eight nations in Aus
tria, but Austria is not a uosion. Aus
tria is the dynasty, the autocracy the
army. Austra-Hungary is an example
of an artificial state just as Prussia
is. These small nations are not part
of the same government because they
are neighboring and have agreed to 1t,
but because they have the same dy-
nasty.
"The aim of the future peace confer
of Europe. The unexpected result of
this war was the Russian revolution
Czarism has given place to something
not very strong. 1t is my conviction
and that of many political thinkers
that Russia must be an organized
democracy, and not the prey Of Ger
many.
"a reconstruction Of mankind must
be result of this war. If Germany
would only rely upon her own forces
Germany will not exploit other nations
she can do what she likes. Every pol
icy that is only materialistic cannot
prevail. Democracy is the government
of hearts over hearts, of souls over
souls"
AS one listened to Masaryk there
seemed nothing remarkable about his
treatment of the great field he was
tilling What he said seemed to one
the logical and appropriate thing to
say. 1t was said with so little en-
phass that the largeness of his con-
ception did not at once manifest itself.
He left his ideas to grow in such soil
as they found congenial.
Thomas Garrique Masaryk, a pro-
fessor of philosophy, politics and
sociology in the University of Prague,