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Excerpt from The Czecho-Slovaks: An Oppressed Nationality When as a young man Disraeli first came forward in politics a proud and noble lord inquired, some what superciliously: What is he? In answer Disraeli wrote a pamphlet in which he sketched the scheme of his life. But'then he was a young man. Many people now reading the name of Czecho Slovaks in the Allies' answer to President Wilson ask: What are they? They are an old nation which has engraved its history deep in the 'annals of Europe, and when the question is asked about them, the vision of the future can be substantiated by the facts of the past. The first question that people ask on seeing that hyphenated name of a nation is whether they are one people or two. By many the question is asked in the best faith; by others with malevolent intent. As amatter of fact, the difference between these two branches' of one single nation is mainly a difference in the enemy from whom they have suffered oppres sion and persecution in the past and are still suffering at the present day. Both speak the same language. The differences between Czech and Slovak are smaller than those existing between the German language as spoken, even by the educated classes, in Vienna, Munich, and Dresden. Slovak is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.