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- 53 - 76 Prof. A.B. Koukol and others. A considerable political significance gained the participation of Czechoslovak emigration to the American war bonds. If, for example, the Bulgarian and Swedish economies took part in these bonds only with a few cents per capita, if each Italian's head accounted for about $2o dollars and as much on the head of a Poland, then every Czechoslovak emigrant in America will receive a full $38o five cents. The Czechoslovaks were defeated by no one, even-not by the Americans, in this struggle for primacy. Our leading men were ringing to work by living words between the American, If irgéndwo, the word of an honorable lannes applies precisely in America. And so in political clubs, at various congresses, universities, in scholarly associations, at American-minded patriotic parties, our people speak of the struggle for freedom, of the problem of Central Europe, they open the eyes that used to be b.ind, and the hearts that were formerly closed, that was what Prof. B.Šimek, Šárka Hrbek, J.Martínek, Alb.Mamatey, A. Ambros, J.Mika, Ven Švarc, the priest Jedlička, JJ Zmrhal, JF Smetanza, in Omaha the right-wing representative of Votava, in Texas M. Pázdral, in Pittburgh Tábor. The English rallies of the writer J. Martinek after a return of Voska's mission to Russia, where he was perhaps the first to shed light on the methods and goals of Bolshevism among the Americans. Karl Pergler was then at the head of the campaign, who became one of the official speakers of the Czechoslovak struggle for freedom in America already in l9l6. · When Congressman Meyer London handed over a resolution in the House of Commons of the United States at the end of 19l6 in which he asked President Wilson to prepare, with the participation of the neutral peoples, a proposal of the peace conditions, which should then be presented to the fighting peoples this only socialist of the Congress of the U.S. there mentions "also our liberation. As a result, representatives of Czech-Slovak organizations were invited to the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, where London's Resolution was dealt with, so that they - 54