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75 - 51 - evaluated sheet. J.J. Zmrhal wrote in the "Chicago Journal" and won this important sheet as well as his editor Dr. Knapp full for the Czechoslovak question. Everywhere in America, local and circular sheets began to write in daily newspapers also our ordinary people, to whom the "Czech National Association" had encouraged this promotion. And so, in forgotten farms as well as in the American metropolises, the articles of excellent authors were printed just as much as those simple farmers, workers and merchants of Czechoslovak origin, and precisely the simplicity of these Artikel was often, their large number, their enthusiasm, which won the interest of Americans. Peter Rabštejněk, Josef Kovář, Wenzel Klimaund and a number of other unliterary men proved themselves in this field too. In order for our people to have enough good information, Josef Tvrzický published his cleverly written paper "Auf in den Kampf" (V Boj!), next to which the organisation of the struggle is concerned with the magazine "The Message" (Poselstvi), and the Slovak League publishes the already mentioned magazine "Our Slovakia" (Naše Slovensko). Josef Trvzický, who has already been killed by the work for the freedom of his people, was one of the leaders present everywhere, never losing their heads and minds, whose America did not have many. He was the first to start attempts to reach agreement with the Slovak League and the Slovak League in 19l5. This agreement had a tremendous significance for our struggle. The agreement with the Czechoslovak Catholics then took place in the highest possible time and cannot be properly assessed. What was the danger to our cause in the United States if almost half of the whole branch, possibly federalist within the framework of Austria-Hungary, had formed its position, perhaps at the moment when Wilson spoke for his preservation? Therefore, when on July 4, 19l7 the two camps of the freethinking and the Catholic Czechs came together, our joy was common, except for small exceptions of Austrophil radicals. It was a politically very important act, this agreement went very hard. That. simple - 52 -