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

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- 37 - 21 Every dollar sent to Bohemia would stop the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. We must make sacrifices abroad and in the Heinat!" This position, which we have maintained since the end of the war, paved the way for us. I feel, what impression this decision caused in the Allied Auszchuss, the representatives were pleasantly touched, they had expected something similar, the blockade was not obvious for us, as I have already said, one always considered, that it was the most important questions, unspeakable view as mass-giving and was mostly directed to it. Thus the tsclechoslovak branch in America during the ariage fulfilled its duty, u id once, when one reads the details of all this work, one will wonder what sacrifices were made i wonder where the energy of the least people who had had to flee from the home to suchan another a larger piece of bread, the fact that there were unskilled people, indeed very often people, who had to save the last bites from the mouth, financed our revival, makes their work and their sacrifices all the more great. In America, we sent all the money we received to Europe at the hands of our leader, even we did not need money from the public collections. All the American magazines gave us the assurance that we would let them know about the östraichisch-deitschen crime, their svalts for free for the publication of our articles, If in the American journals iber unscro thing was not written enough during the war, it was unsirable fault, because the columns and also whole pages of the magazines stood in us offan. Our propaganda later demanded that the Slav Press Bureau be organized, which did a lot of good not only in America, but also in Russia, where it had a branch office in Petersburg, and also in Switzerland and Italy. Besides Vojta Ben š, it is said that important work was done in Ameri ca Ivrzický, further