English Translation

69a - 40 - led an idea but against personalities. Against one idea one can put another idea, but against people who were not present and at the moment when it was necessary to put all the forces into the fight against the enemies of our freedom, this new fight could be the greatest danger. But thanks to the shocks that the "Czech National Union" had endured in the battle with Iška, and thanks to mistakes made by the opponent, who was too much driven by his passion and lost his head, the struggle that Karl Horký waged against the " Czech National Association" passed through vie a bad episode, It was the soon-to-following Afghan Dürichs who made Horky his own, and with which he taught our revolutionary work painful shocks. Horký was known in America through his epistle "now or never", with which work he strengthened the determined to work and shook the distrust of the undecided. His further works were also read with great interest, the articles and appeals to which he lent all the characteristics of his spirit and his pen. But his chapter "Dürich's People and Beneš's Audience" was a terrible mistake, not only a factual but also a tactile error and it had to end as it ended. However, there, as in New York, vo man Horký in the mouth and through gatherings answered, and where the first moods whipped up by the tone of the brochure and its contents, the revolutionary movement got heavy blows, from which he could not recover for months. But elsewhere, where the danger of the affair and its personal background were properly recognized, the matter passed without major consequences alone. It is only a testimony. for the high moral level and maturity of the whole revolutionary movement, the storm that. especially in the "Czech National Association", swept over our heads without causing any major damage. During this time, the counter-revolutionary camp began to lift its head, which had only been waiting for an opportunity for a revolution of its own, and which then later imagined itself as the Bolshevik-Victorian move in America. It was around the New Yorkers - 41 -