Karl
Heinold, Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia
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As governor of Silesia and Moravia he was constantly busy in
attempting to diminish national contrasts. He was sometimes
successful, sometimes not. In 1907 he created a national division
between the Germans, Czechs and Poles in Silesia. For many years he
was trying to create a national balance between the Germans and
Czechs in Bohemia. These efforts had no success and found their end
at the outbreak of the World War.
Milan
Hodza, Prague-Smichov, Czechoslovakia
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Before the war up to 1910 he was a member of Hungarian Parliament as
a representative of Slovakia, which belonged until the end of the war to Hungary.
He lead the strife for democratization of the state and for the
liberation of nationalities deprived in former Hungary of their
national liberty. Together with others he organized a collaboration
between Czechs and Slovaks and also with Rumanians and Yugoslavs
living in Hungary as well as with democratic Hungarian elements. With
Dr. Vajda, former Prime Minister of Rumania, he belonged to a group
of men collaborating with the late archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir
to the Habsburg throne with the view of changing radically the former
Danubian Empire into a Federation of National States.
Ahmed
Mouhtar bey, Stamboul, Turkey
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joined state service as a member of the bureau of the "Imperial
Chancellery"; where he stayed for six years. He resigned one year
after the revolution of 1908 to fight against the politic of the
committee "Union et Progrès" which he considered a misfortune
for his country. Especially persecuted were the non-Turkish
inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire such as Albanians, Arabs, Kurdes,
Greeks and Armenians and others. The Committee Union tried to kill
him, so he left Constantinople in 1910; one year later this Committee
condemned him to death while he was in France.