“ Though they are the most loyal of Americans, is it not love of America, but hate of the Teuton that sends them into the trenches ahead of the American legions. For the Czechs have been fighting the Teutons since the year 630, and it has been a life and death battle nearly all the 1,300 years. Time and again the Teuton hosts have ridden over the Czechs, almost obliterating them. But time and again the Czechs have reconstructed themselves, and arising from subjugation have re-established themselves and their race. ”

“ Bonsal speaks of the Bohemians from personal knowledge; he has visited Bohemia several times, the last time being in 1915, and he also is acquainted with the movement for independence going on in America and the Allied countries.
He gives credit to people of Bohemian birth in this country for the zeal with which they came forward to fight, when war was declared, and approves of the determination of all Czechs and Slovaks to accept nothing less than full political independence. ”

“ Bonsal’s article the most, is this: “One feels drawn towards the Bohemians for their idealistic point of view. They are perfectly familiar with the econoic wrongs and the exactions which their country has suffered at the hands of the Austrians, but always subordinate these injuries to the threatened loss of the language and the nationality which they hold so dear.” ”