English Translation

Roht - 5o τ from England, under which especially the distinguished works of Namier protruded over the Czechoslovaks- A number of good works were printed by Karl Pergler, which he first had spread in the United States through the mediation of the "Czech National Association", later by mediation of Slav.Pres.Bureauß, which was founded in New York in 1917 by Emanuel Voska. When on any occasion "The New Republic", a sheet of American progressive intelligence, which was not friendly to us in the first period of the war, wrote about the Czechoslovak question, it wrote that no one dares to doubt the right of Czechoslowaks to independence, since otherwise the Czechs would kill him with their bulletins and brochures. And it was almost true. Day after day, the law of the "Czech National Association", located on the 26th Street of Chicago, left hundreds and thousands of brochures and bulletins that were handed over to lawyers, professors, schools, preachers, workers' organizations, bankers, especially to congressmen and senators who always had our literature at hand. The law firm of the "Czech National Association" was like a beehouse, where there was never a moment of rest, either at day or at night. So it was later on everywhere where work was done for our cause. Yes, the Czechoslovak propaganda went so far that our people in the towns and settlements throughout America sent from the headquarters, into which thousands of copies of propaganda literature took over, formed women's and men's committees, who visited important men and women in their city and the surrounding area in the evenings and Sundays, and to whom Americans they personally presented this literature. In February, 19l7, Dr. Smetanka begins to issue his "The Bchemian Review", which was later changed to the "The Czechoslovak Review". The "Czech National Association" buys it for the senators and congressional members of the United States and also sent it to all major men, magazines and American leaves. By their objective view, the documentary justification of their motivations and articles, the "Bohemian Review" was very favourable in political circles - 51 -