English Translation

S6a - 16 This heated the minds of the people to the highest. But the leaders, as it should be shown, cared for nothing. When I saw that nothing was moving, I intended to start myself." And he then wrote that at the first meeting of August 2nd, l9l4 were only "louth un-seeming people", Voska was in Europe and the others without initiative. (The first news of the execution and the terrors ruling in Prague on the same August 2nd/New York brought Herald,) This was also the position of many previous leaders of the Czechoslovak people throughout America. As to whom they would have disappeared from the ground. Both Hus and his judges began to fight on this émigré floor for the soul of the Czech people. But the time gave birth to new leaders. They were suddenly there, they sprang from the heart of the people, simple, unknown men, but determined to "persevere to the end". Old leaders with good names, often with respectable fortune, many of them also covered with fame of quiet days, could not begin the uncertain "busines" of the revolution, which, according to their political experiences and knowledge of the world situation, could end with a terrible defeat. They, the eternal unbelieving Thomase at their own power, could not invest in such a revolution the whole harvest of their previous life, In the end it must be terribly bad with this Czech "liberation action" and it is therefore better to keep on miles from all this madness. Our little people were at the first moment, as far as they dared, completely perplexed, which in turn goes out nicely from the notes of Josef Marek: "After we had talked about the Lage and recognized the seriousness of the time and the deed, we undertook to turn to the Czech public, What we would begin, we did not know ourselves, After thorough consultation we realized that the political action was the main need", And so appeared already on 22. A statement in the Czech press in New York on August 15, in which the participants of the earlier meeting said: "Today's - 17