Mr. Balfour, on behalf of the British Government, has recognized
the Czeoho-Slovak National Council in Paris as the supreme organ of the Czecho-Slovak movement in Allied countries. The Czecho- Slovak Army, which is being formed, will be regarded as an Allied force. In civil matters concerning Czeoho-Slovaks, the Council will have the same rights as the Polish National Committee enjoys in relation to Poles. Our Government have thus followed France and Italy in definitely recognizing the Austrian Slays as a separate nation, like the Poles, who must be freed from German and Austrian rule. As the tension between Germans and Slays in Austria has reached such a height that German troops have been sent into Austria to preserve order, the Allied declaration on behalf of the Czecho- Slovaks is timely, and may be expected to increase Austria's domestic troubles. Furthermore, it shows that the Allies have abandoned once for all the mischievous delusion that a separate peace could be made with the Hapsburg, who is now the humble servant of the Plohenzollerns.
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