English Translation

45a - 52 - Catholic people went from the beginning of the war behind the Stimmme of his heart and with the growing sympathy of the free-thinking compatriots for the "Czech National Association" also the Catholic sympathies to this organization increased. Some of the Catholic pastors also publicly bckunde their agreement with the revolutionary activity of the "Czech National Association". The pastor Kunc from Texas, but above all the Cleveland pastor Zlámal, who soon perceived as a wise political observer and as a nationally warm-minded man that this moment would decide the fate of the whole people and that the whole em- eration should actively participate in him. And so it finally comes with great enthusiasm on the 14th. In January 1917, at a large gathering of Catholics in Chicago to establish the National Association of Czech Catholics (Národni Svaz Českých Katoliku), which formulated its task as "action aimed at obtaining the highest freedom of the Czech people". Thus, the condition was given to the later disappearance with the "Czech National Association" into a single organization the "Bohemian National Alliance" with two branches, one of which remained the Association and the other of the Association. From there, leading speakers of the Association: the Pfar-rer Kestl and Jedlička, the Reverend Boženek, Johann Straka, Ignatz Dostál, the Pastor Johann Rynda and Msgr. Bouska, Old. Zlámal, so that they can do the same revival work as the Czechs did in the past. The "Czech National Association" won from this time on in Catholic loyal collaborators. The Czechoslovak Evangelists soon entered the ranks of the beetles and their influence in the circles of the American Protestant world was certainly effective. On 1 May the united Protestant denominations turn to the whole Protestant world in America with a 'serious appeal' calling for the support of the freedom struggle of the people of Hus. Individual excellent men then also visit con- ferences of their American churches and there also gain sympathy for the Czechoslovak cause through lively words. So Zmrhal, the preacher Králiček, Dr, Vanšk, the Preacher Křenek, - 53 -