English Translation

109t 54 there in a special audience would like to say their point of view on this. Dr. J.L.Fisher participates in the delegation as chairman of the "Czech National Association", .more Franta Filip from Cedar Rapids, a man devoted to the revolution with all his heart, J.J. Král and in her name speaks Karl Pergler, on the 26. He later published his speech under the title "Bohemiá s Claim to Indepen* dance". In December of the same year, Pergler spoke in Washington at the conference of oppressed nations, which appeared to have been called together by elements that were against the Allies, having previously sent an open letter to Jane Adams, the leading woman among the American.. In the spring of 19l7 he entered the Slav Press Bureau in New York, where he worked together with the Slovak legal representative J.Mika. This political information firm will then become the forum for all those who wish to be briefed on the nature of the Central European problems, where valuable links will be established, the bulletins will be published for the American press, the article and polemics. In this year, Pergler, on behalf of the Czechoslovak revolutionary organizations, presents the President of the United States with a memorandum in which he explains our problem. And at the ällem he speaks at universities, in chambers of commerce, in clubs, in the .State legislative, and he works with the resolutions that will pass to parliament for ~the, Czechoslovak independence of Senator Kenyon from Iowa and Congressman Sabath' from Chicago. His speech at the Academy of Social and Political Sciences in Philadelphia in April 1917 gained a special significance at a scientific forum of great importance. For his work as a journalist, journalist and political work, Pergler was appointed in July 19l8 as the representative of the eY "Czechoslovak National Council", the de facto recognized reg- eration of the revolutionary military, and after 28 October 1918 as the first representative of a liberated nation in Washington, where Dr. Smetanka, director of the press office Josef - 55 -