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

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- 23 - 14 and expulsion of the Austrian and German diplomats from America, the termination of the diplomatic relations of America to Austria and Germany is our merit, is our work, is the merit and the work of the Czech confidant organization, We waries, who opened the eyes of President Wilson through the mediation of the Colonela House, his personal advisor, who told Wilson the truth, because he completely received America's neutrality and did not allow it to go to war. We were the ones who told him from the opposite that America could not remain silent on all these things. The Viennese and the Berlin government paid large sums for the blasting of factories on American soil and the destruction of American lives; they corrupted the American press with the help of their organizations and their embassies, but especially the Slavic press. We also had to eliminate our own people, because in this struggle we also had stocks among us, one of them was the Czech Jour- nal Melichar. This man revealed in the magazine "Fatherland", which was published in New York for Berlin money, 'the first to establish the connection between us and the Allied representatives. Melichar was érster secretary of the National Association and published in the magazine "Fatherland" at the most critical moment an article in which he advised our confidant organization and led the German and Austrian government espionage on the right track of our secret organization, which could already with many revelations about the German, Austrian movements and on the Bcden of the United States perpetrated Verbrechén passer. He also stated in the article that all work against the German and Austrian organizations in America was led by Voska. All of this was a secret until the publication of this article itself for the regulation in Washington.