fendant, and the probability that he was guilty of the crime of murder.
“Masaryk risked all, suffered all, and was silent until the day came when he did most to liberate his people from the Austrian yoke, and to recreate the great Czechoslovakian nation.
“Masaryk did not become great because he defended a Jew, because he served the Jewish people in a hour of challenge. He served the Jewish people because he was an unafraid lover of truth, daring all that justice might be done. Like Clemenceau, his defense of a Jew, unjustly accused, grew out of his life-long passion for justice and truth.
“Masaryk will have his place in world history, but his place will also be secured in the annals of an imperishable people. Today he stands by the side of Woodrow Wilson, his friend, and Clemenceau and Balfour, as one eager that justice be done to the Jew and that to the Jewish people there be penitentially offered by Christendom that reparation which makes possible the recreation of the life of the Jewish people in the Jewish land.”
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