The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Our cause before the American people

OUR CAUSE BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Clippings referring to Bohemia are getting to be more numerous every month. During March several dispatches, reproduced in practically every American daily, dealt with the violent attacks made by the Czech deputies in the Vienna parliament upon the Austrian government. That, of course, was nothing startling to readers who follow the events in Central Europe, but it helps to impress upon the mind of the average newspaper reader the fact that the Czechs at the very heart of Mittel-Europa continue to struggle against our enemies. In addition to that the Prague Declaration, published in full in this issue, has been given out to the press by the Slav Press Bureau and has been quoted at length in all of the important journals of the United States. Another, means of giving publicity to the cause of Bohemia has been the lecture trip of Joseph Martinek who is visiting the larger centers of the Bohemian population to talk of his experiences in Russia, and who takes the opportunity in every case to tell the local papers something of the great accomplishments of Czechoslovak soldiers in Russia.

Among large dailies, approving editorially of the aims of the Bohemian people, are, besides old friends who may always be relied upon to say a good word, newspapers like the Washington Post, Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, N. Y. Evening Sun, Brooklyn Eagle, Grand Rapids Herald and others. In addition, some half a dozen clippings, containing quotations from the Bohemian Review, have come under the editor’s notice during the past month. The March World’s Work contains a very sympathetic discussion of “The Ferment in Bohemia” by Richard Wilmer Rowan.

 

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