Evening star., 1918-11-17
u. S. AID PROMISED
LIBERATED LANDS
Nations of Eastern Europe
Topic at American Slavic
Conference Dinner.
Plea By DR.. MASARYk


By the AssociatAd Pass.
NEW sfo4sKs NovepabAr: 1s.-Appeals
for .ttsAme erfcan afd' d thsreconstruc-
| tioafof tne liberatsd nations Of ,sast-
ern Europe with promises sby kmer-
icaN officials and citize1y' that the
helping hand would. be. generously
extAnded. were features. .stonight Of
speeches at dinner Of. the American
Slavic. - =.
Speaking. not merely for;Czecho-
Slovakia, the republic which today
proclaimed him its first president. ,but
for the Poles. Jugo-SIavs and other
nationalities Of the proposed mid
European union freed by the; war
from German and Austrian sdofniha-
ttion, Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk de-
clared it had been the moral duty of
I the United States to enter the war
( and, having helped win it, it was now
Fits moral duty to assist in the re-
organization of the former oppressed
traces. -.
Count Heavily on America.
| On the eve of his departure for
t Prague, capital of ancient Bohemia
DR.. Masaryk said that his people
would expect America to lend them
money and to send engineers, busi-
ness men, teachers and other con-
structive workers to aid his country
men in reaching a solid condition of
Independence.
Answering DR.. Masaryk, Senator
Hitchcock, chairman of the Senate
foreign relations committee, asserted
THAT ..the American people are heart
iandssou1 with President Wilson in his
demand that generations Of oppres-
the Polish peeple, the Cxechss the
JugszSlaus and others capable of self
determination and self-government
shall have the opportunity" Remind
ling his hearers that, "the high-sound-
ling phrases of the DECLARATION Of In,
the senator said they had proved prac-
teal, as would the high purposes
Idicfa ting allied determination for Ser
manent peace, gradual disarmament
land a league, of nations.
| For a League of Nations.
| DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
ident of Columbia University. urged
immediate formation of a league OF
nations as the first practical step to-
ward establishing and guaranteeing
liberty to the submerged nationalities
lof eastern Europe Questions OF
boundary and economic independence,
he declared, should be settled by the
international tribunal.
Earlier in the day President Ma
saryk was guest of honor at lunch
con of the Lawyers Club. There he
spoke Of the revolt of his people
against the dual monarchy, declaring
| that it was this revolt which had
1caused the monarchy's downfall.
The task now confronting the fresh
lily liberated Slavic nations was moi
lmerely that of reconstruction, but oi
recreation, he said.
1 The new nations face a huge prob.
4 lem, said Dr. Masaryk, and the feeling
1among them all is that mot: one of US
Unjust fail" The work before them
4 he asserted, is even greater than thai
lin France and Belgium.
4 DR.. Masaryk declared the advancing
jof a credit of $7,000,O 900 to the nationa
]council of Czecho-Slovakia today by
the United States Treasury was 8
4practical manifestation of sympathy
land added:
! You Americans like to help the mar
who helps himself, too. What we car
do we are doing. If we ask for helI
iyou may be sure we need it,