Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919,
Volume II
The Paris Peace Conference,
1919
Professor A. C. Coolidge to the
Commission to Negotiate Peace
Vienna , January 12, 1919.
[Received January 19.] No. 15
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II. The Historical Argument
Here again the German Austrians admit the unity of the Bohemian state, (except for the Eger district which came in much later and whose separate
entity was long recognized), though they claim a much greater share in its history and glory than is accorded to them by the Czechs,.....
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When after the cessation of hostilities the Czechs, instead of disarming, called their men to the colors and occupied the German parts of Bohemia, people in those regions were inclined to resist by force. The government of Vienna, however, forbade all such resistance, declaring that the matter could be settled only by the Peace Conference in Paris, and that the Germans of Austria and Bohemia should peaceably await its decision trusting to the justice of their case.
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919,
Volume XII
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Professor A. C. Coolidge to the
Commission to Negotiate Peace
Vienna, February 17, 1919.
[Received February 24.] No. 89
In the northwest, the Eger Territory, which was not part of the original Bohemian State, could go without difficulty to Bavaria.
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By far the most difficult and important question is that of Northern
Bohemia. Here is where the largest and most important block of German speaking territory is to be found. It might conceivably be annexed to
Saxony or made a separate state in the new German Republic, but, owing to its barrier of mountains, it would seem to belong by clear geographic law to Bohemia and not to Saxony.
