English Translation

- 1 - 3 Our largest colony is located in America, where it includes one and a half million Czechs and Slovaks. The majority of these people are from the ranks of the workers; it is the poorest who often see themselves travelling across the ocean with the range and a bunch of children from home. There they form individual colonies, I would like to say, small cities in the cities. In every larger city like New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha etc. you will find Czech and Slovak neighborhoods. For these one and a half million Czechs and Slovaks, our people have never been much interested in and have not taken care of them. The self-reliant emigrants organized themselves and grindetan Czech schools by their own means and contributions with the help of their associations and various organizations, what I am now saying is neither a criticism nor a reproach. In the Czech schools in America, as far as I remember and know, never came a single book from any Czech institution in Bohemia! Dage: in the case of dia slovakian schools in the Americas, all these boxes, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books were sent by the Magyar government! This continued the Magyarişation of the Slovaks in America as well. It was the progressive element among the Czechs and Slovaks, which paid attention to the preservation of their nationality. In America, our people had time to take care of the political issues, they did not live politically and only a few people were interested in the political questions. They were mostly enigrants who fled home for political reasons, and the intelligence that was forced to leave home for various reasons. Tablemen, tailors, teachers, editors and various groups, associations and federations organized themselves; they also founded a series of magazines, which were organized again in the volume of journalists. These organizations do not hide the old homeland,