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7 2 -A The political activity. The Czech-Celovak America also began to develop the direct political power very soon and it is the New Yorker's Chechen Emanuel Voska, who from the very beginning becomes an instrument of the revolution. In the year l9l4 Voska drives to Europe and at the beginning of the war he comes to Prague as an American citizen. He searches for Prof. Masaryk will be the first foreign messenger of the Czechoslovak Revelutins on and after various negotiations. On August 28 he will travel with news Prof, Masaxyk's to England to Wickham Steed and Sea-ton' Watson, hand over sxine sewn in the soles of shoes to the mentioned English statesmen and leads to America, where he already after the l3. September during their help with Maxwell, the representative of the "Eondon Times" bekanat, this Maxwil opens the door to the Czechoslovak people to the American press and thus has very valuable services to our cause. Even the people of Omaha realize that it will be necessary to find a way to the allies. E. Voska together with the writer P. Üapek and the 'Kaufnann Tvrdý did this in practice: In October 194 they went to Washington, visited the :Russian,'onglish and French embassy and experienced there, that certain Slovak foremen issued a declaration in favour of Austria-Hungary.x) They therefore telegraphed Prof. Masaryk to the Hotel 'Wei- mar' in Rotterdem, that the "Dula proclamation diplomatic blunder" is, return to New York and begin the collaboration with the Slovaks. Soïberholt New York in diaser Beziehung by the merit of progressive Czechs and Slovaks of this city the rest of America by whole years. In January l915 the New Yorkers reached their first political irfoig: the erglisene sent in Washington, Cecil Spring Pice, gives Hiliden the wink, dasb from a prison camp in Canada all Slowcken, as far as they Austrian-Hungarian nationals are dismissed. Even then the Germans led the tremendous importance could not be established. -46 -