GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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57 - 17 serious Iage also demands energetic actions from us. Today or never...!" On September 5, 19l4 the first large public assembly was organized and on it was declared: "We do not fear the revolution, because America itself has also won its independence through a revolution." Thus New York began its revolutionary activity. It is natural that the broad masses of immigrants were waiting for a gesture of the leaders, but when they were rejecting when they saw a series of pálecs, when they often mocked Dr. Lškas and his passionate resistance, the only one who had enough courage to face up to the revolution, they were dismayed, disrupted and immediately distracted in the first moments of the struggle. - 18 -