The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Bohemian Review enters upon second year

BOHEMIAN REVIEW ENTERS UPON SECOND YEAR

 

Much has happened, since the first issue of the Bohemian Review came out. A year ago the United States was still neutral, and though thoughtful men foresaw the necessity of our active participation, few imagined that January, 1918, would see hundreds of thousands of American boys under arms in France. We are at war both with Germany and its vassal, Austria-Hungary. Peace it not yet in sight, in fact it seems to be as far away as it was a year ago; but this much is certain that the most powerful voice in the settlement of affairs, after the guns shall have been silenced, will be the voice of the United States.

If there were reasons a year ago to call into being this little review that it might advocate the claims of Bohemia to freedom, there are many more reasons today to keep it alive and to widen its usefulness. We said in the first issue: “To earn the sympathy and good will of America for the struggles of Czechs and Slovaks toward freedom will be the main purpose of the Bohemian Review.” How vastly more important to the Czechs and Slovaks is the sympathy and good will of America now that this premiere republic of the world has staked its all on the defeat of the Central Empires. And how difficult it is to gain over the United States. Not because the American people are indifferent to the struggles of a brave nation for freedom, but because this country is so big, because the causes which claim the attention of the people are so many, and because this little monthly has so far reached only a few of the influential citizens whose sympathies and active help we want to enlist.

You can help in this work. Renew your own subscription so that the necessary expenses of publication may be defrayed. And then subscribe the Review for someone who ought to read it. Your local newspaper editor ought to have it; very likely he will reprint occasionally some news item or argument which will inform thousands of his readers what the Bohemians are doing for the cause of the Allies and for their own liberation. The Bohemian Review ought to be in your public library and in the university library, where it would be seen by many. It ought to be sent to men of influence in your town that they may know who the Czechs and Slovaks are and learn to distinguish them from Austrians and Hungarians. At this time, when our unnaturalized people are classed as alien enemies, it is more than ever desirable that local authorities all over the United States should be informed of the absolute loyalty of Czechoslovaks to the cause of America.

Help to have the Bohemian Review read, and you will help both the people of Bohemia and the Bohemian and Slovak residents of the United States.

 

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