English Translation

SSa -_14 - so little that they ended without a practical response, Profes- sor Masaryk feels this deficiency very strongly and in October 1915, in the time of uncertainty about the result of the struggle, he writes to his friends to America: "If German-Austrian wins and wins, then our radical foreign action must be, since ours at home would not get anything else. I have decided to return to the Austro-Hungarian Victory Court and to pursue anti-Austrian policy abroad." And just like our people and its politicians, iso our emigration did not until then think of a smashing of Austria-Hungary, yet it so hasgto That's why the first time of the war stirred up the general effort to help the widows and orphans, and isolated voices calling for political work did not find any attention among the masses. The autrophilic factors, according to an advocate right in New York, initially trabant of the Austrian Consulate, later'representative of Soviet Russia in America, were very concerned that the support activity might gain a foothold for the widows and orphans and prevented political activity by all sorts of intrigues when it finally came to it. But he could not prevent the hatred and the manifestations of the contempt of Austria-Hungary either, they broke through with ele- mentar force, had in the meantime their negative, ineffective character, like many others, of which one lived here. This hatred increased to the ardent preeingenomity at that tragic moment when, according to Ameri- ka news of the violent death of Masaryk, Klofáč, the excited Czech-Slovak pedestrians in the streets of New York read about the news that "Vltava is red with Czech blood". At that time, in the middle of the orest days of war, the "American Press Office" is calling for a public gathering in the Pilsner Pavilion in the Czech quarter of Chicago, where it is located. Štěpin's speech of the anger of the people against Austria-Hungary in the downfall of the 'Dual' badges of the monarchy and its trampling by the passionately excited masses of the Czech and Slovak people reached its peak. To the first expression. - 15 -