English Translation

84a ~ 70,- State that does not have its own will or the love of its peoples. And soon after that we heard that Prof. Masaryk was on the journey through the vast Siberian steppes to the vast American prairies. On April 7th a telegram from San Francisco arrived; the nit begins the following words: "Whc is Tarsden"? Who is Tars- who from Tokyo, where does he go, what profession does he have, what purpose does he pursue, in what connection are you with him, what nationality are you, what nationality is he, and what sense does his journey and his mission have? - The Cable censor. Masaryk is on his journey to America and asks for . the permission to enter the soil of the United States, and then, on 29 April, his ship docks already on the Amorica coasts. The image, which appeared a few days later to the eyes of the Anglo-Sic Chicago, is one of the most beautiful manifestations of our struggle and also of the great political successes of our movement. On one hundred and fifty thousand Czechoslovak souls, in a triumphal procession from North Western Station to Hotel Black-: stone across Michigan Avenue, their old white-haired guides greet and lead in unspeakable enthusiasm through the excited streets of Chicago. Hundreds of flags blow in the ranks of our train. Thousands of children of Czech blood greet him and pour flowers, women in rows of thousands, and white in their clothes greet him, the Slovaks in glorious costumes, Catholics and freethinkers, it greets him the workers, immense rows of Sokoln and immeasurable crowds disciplined, joyfully moved, marched up into the most fes- ter ranks. Thus they carry him, as on their shoulders, raised high before the eyes of the immense city of the world and its population, who asks with.astonished glances: Who is the king of these souls, who is it that the thousands and thousands so joyfully greet? A single word is on all lips: Masaryk. And the chairman of the Chicager University, the learned Harry Pratt. - 71 -