English Translation

59 - 21 - Dr. Vojan's position, disgusted by the attacks of the enemies of the liberation struggle, and in his place stands beside Dr. Fisher the journalist Josef Tvrzický, a man whose activity in the history of national liberation will occupy a very honorable- full place. Until then Dr. Iška the "Czech National Association" not as very dangerous and defied it rather with derision, With the entry of Tvrzický to the fairground of the fights for the Czech heart and the Czech soul the situation changed. Tvrzický was a man of political elucidation, a violent, aggressive character, full of firm faith in the success of the Revolutians, especially from the moment when the scene, albeit until then incognito, was held by Professor Thomas G. Masaryk enters the United States around December 2nd (the banker J.F.Štěpin in Chicago, the cashier of the relief committee and later the "Czech National Association") screams that he may tell the Czech people that he only reckons with him in his struggles and that the Czechoslovak America should be the finance minister of the revolution, Tvrzický antiert until then in his small apartment on Springfield Avenue, he writes, speaks and wrestles in the true sense of the word with Dr. Iška, whose reasons he beats and whose Austro-Hungarian heart he reveals, But just like in fairy tale fights, this "Iškatum" grows in place of a beaten head equal to two new ones, and thus the whole of America becomes a witness to this sometimes almost hopeless struggle, the visit of the tsarist Koniček - Horský took place only as an episode without consequences. He could not prosper in the milieu of American democracy; and only some New York writer, known by his old resistance to Prof. Masaryk, supported this dubious journey, which perhaps supported Iška*, who might have pointed out that the tsarist danger grew up in the state in whose revolution it was possible. The journey of the London compatriot Fr. Kopecký, a good fighter of the revolution, had a greater significance, but nothing changed for a long time, in which the central point of attention was the unequal struggle of the "Czech National Association" with Dr. Iška, for whom the war situation - 22 -