GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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-15- 10 She informs the Amarikan public through lectures about the aspirations and wishes of the Czech people. She sends information articles of this kind to English magazines in America and also in Europe. It supports the leaves that propagate the aspirations of the Ischech National Association, and through the mediation of the Press Committee and the Branches, it helps to spread "The Amercan Bi-Monthly", which it places in public reading halls and sends to individual personalities and American magazines. A number of proposals and resolutions were then discussed and adopted. Of the adopted, let us mention; the previous trustees enter into the new Confidentialminner organization and the European confidence miners are recognized by this consultation as trusted men of the Czech national cleansing in America. The Conference expresses its enthusiastic sympathy for the liberation efforts of the Slovak people and requests the parties to maintain relations with the Slovak brothers. The conference welcomes with enthusiasm the South Slavic Declaration of Independence, which was published at the Congress in Chicago, and is happy to welcome the fraternization of Croats and Serbs. The decisions of the New York Confarence are approved. The Czech National Association in Chicago was unanimously elected to the Zantrale vurde." At the dics conference, dia V rtreter of all American colonies accommodated the V rtrauensminrer organization, which was subordinated to no one but the main confidant and chairman of the National Association. I was appointed Chief Trustee of the organization, that all the secret matters that could not be entrusted to the public had to be dealt with, certainly you heard and read a lot of un-serar work in America and therefore I will limit myself only to what is so little known up to now. The Slovaks, who were politically orga nized in the Slovak League long before the war, also began to varne with the national varenigurg, which was determined in this confederation in Cleveland.