English Translation

21a - 38 - Dr. Fischer and K. Pergler. The last one that came out most of all when he became head of the S.av Press Bureaus in New York. I am waiting here to talk to the individual merits; we all fulfilled our duty and I believe that if anyone can make the slightest appeals for the fulfilment of his duty, they were and are the Czechs and the Slovaks in America. They gave everything they could, often everything she had, and they never heard that they had asked for anything back. In the conversation, many still give today, I remember that one of our poor Irauen came and took her jewels off her neck, her only property inherited from her mother, and thus paid her accomplices because otherwise she had no money. There are similar cases. Of course, our people gave work, money and also their lives, We delivered 3o0o Legior ire to the French legions, and to the American army were more than 4o,Ooo Tchachen and Slovaks aingersight, Also on military issues we were, as you can see, not in America - in the last place. Sehon in the spring of 19l' , before the public appearance of Prof. Masaryk, we published leaflets in which the Czech soldiers in Italy were told the following: "Czech soldiers! Sons of Czech mothers! Pray Euchl Do not fight for Austria's messy cause! A futile fight! Don't fight against the army of liberators! Italy fights alongside France, Russia, England and Serbia for the freedom of the Austrian and Hungarian Slavs. Italy does not fight against Czechs, but against the Germans and the Magyars who murder their fathers and brothers behind your back in Bohemia and Moravia. Twenty leaders of the Czech people were thrown for no reason into the dungeon in Vienna, thousands of Czech people have been executed, the best Czech people are murdered behind your back. But it is the futile anger of the shabby Austrian eagle, the Germans and Austrians are included in all sides. The whole world wishes for the victory of the Allies and Italy, in association with Serbia and Russia, is said to be the Austrian Monsrchie, in which you have been litting for centuries: in the end.