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- 19 - 58 Dr. L.J.Fisher, until then a physician unknown to the wider circles of Chicager. It soon became apparent, however, that the election of Dr. Fisher was a very happy one and that through it the basic stone of the very great movement had been laid. In the teeth of the most severe hostility he remained unscathed in his place, full of faith in the success of the just cause. Thus begins the first period of liberation work in America. But already in the first days the indispensable Dr. Iška emerges and first with reconciliation, then with slanders, blasphemies, lies and all the weapons at his command, he puts himself in the service of Austria-Hungary and begins to crush the Czech ranks. He was helped by the nature of the Czech people and, alongside all the helpers and other difficulties, was the most loyal helper. Their main move was mutual distrust, distrust of the human being. Since there was no fixed goal, no connection to the homeland, since there was not a common and recognized authority to which the Czech people had to comply in this country, since the "Czech National Association" we- the tradition still had men of a well-known name, because the leaders were silent or in secret with Dr. Iška agreed, since the German and Austrian Hungarian successes occurred on the battlefields, which had a terrible effect on the psychology of the people, it could not be at all, these beginnings were almost hopeless, all the more so, when after the resignation of Vinklárek from the secretary's office put himself at the head of the later enemy of the Czech revolution, Melichar, an ally of Išk. Dr. Iška used a dangerous weapon in the revolutionary struggle. He addressed to the whole Czechoslovak people a warning that he would not dare to join the ranks of the revolutionary fighters, otherwise his loved ones would be exposed to the danger of the most severe persecution, of incarceration and persecution in the homeland. And he was not wrong with his hopes, so he excited the collections in favor of the widows and orphans, and continued his horrific rush against the persons of the leaders of the struggle. However, the position of Melichar was soon brought through to him - 20-