English Translation

- 73 86 with it the war against the common enemy, the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to wage." On this most glorious day in the life of Czech-Slovak emigration in the United States, the Czech and Hungarian America fulfilled the meaning of its mission. What came further was only a natural consequence of this great moment. Through the streets of our cities music sounded and congratulated the newly born people and their state and its new president, T.G. Masaryk, Es kan then still the 26, October, the meaningful day of the declaration of the oppressed Slavic peoples in Phila delphia, then the ll November, the ceasefire and the capitulation of both empires, and the news of the 28th century. But they only excite by the description of the terrible hardship in the homeland, which had been persecuted for years by heavy fate. The Czechoslovak America was already busy again. The peace negotiations were prepared and America had promised a Piherer to endure until the end. Ee collected funds in a feverish way, and they continued to work in the field of help against distress and misery. That great action began with the "ship of love", after the heart-shaking news of the perpetuated Ružena Svoboda had previously been made clear about the severe atrocity that the Czechoslovak child had to endure under the battles. But the work of the revolution for the starving homeland is already a chapter in itself. On November 4 big celebrations of Czechoslovak independence are held all over America and Canada. In Chicago, under the Freedom Monument, 4o.ooo people gather, in Michel, Nata) in Canada, in an area sunk between snow-defected mountains, thousands of miles from home, some miners go from settlement to settlement through snow and storm, they ride on horses, and holding flags in the callous hands, they thank the chic sal that they were born in the days in which their people rise to new life, - 74