English Translation

098 - 74 On December 9, the People's President of the Czechoslovak Republic, T.G. Masaryk, the United States, embarks on the ship "Carmenia", from which, for the first time in the history of the world, the flag of the Czechoslovak, independent people blows to return to the country of its fathers, which is also free from the merit of the Czechoslovakian Wak people in America. The blessing of hundreds of thousands of faithful Czechoslovak souls accompanies him on the journey. And now only a few others: The Czechoslovakian America fought and worked under Masaryk according to its humble powers not only for the self-employed, but rather for the freedom of the people. The freedom of the people, that is, creative freedom, is the search for the life of the nation and of the human heart and mind. The Czechoslovak people in America are an austere branch. Since he does not himself possess the possibility of this de a ce e e a as he dries únd in the sea of a foreign world, he has accomplished a great mission: he haif to release the bonds of spirit and hands from the bound members of his brothers, dying himself, he opened the gates of a better life and a better morning to the people from which he had once fled to the foreign world for need and slavery. He foh in misery and humiliation. But he did not forget. He fulfilled a mission of God, he created a great epic of love, he filled a well of deeds and feelings from which grateful generations will drink forever. In this his mission of revolution is his eternity, is the meaning of his life, that is a life-giving act, flooded with life, an eternal service to man and to the nation. His only wish, his only longing, the independent people would also like to become a people free in spirit and in truth, filled with the humanity of his great leader and his history, in order to use the creative freedom gained through blood and love - to walk the path that the nation goes to its eternity. - 75 -