“ The Bohemian National Alliance, in convention assembled in Chicago, pledges anew to you and through you to America, the allegiance of all Czechoslovaks. The delegates assembled here received enthusiastically your last message to Congress declaring that all well-defined national aspirations must be satisfied, if permanent peace is to prevail. We realize this necessarily leads to an Independent Czechoslovak State. ”

“ Organization changes were the subject of greatest interest to the delegates. In every other Allied state that is one common organization of Czechs and Slovaks. That is not feasible in this country, where the Bohemian National Alliance and the Slovak League have become too firmly established in the hearts of their people to give place to a new body with a new name. But a union closer than the co-operation heretofore practiced was deemed necessary by all the delegates of the Bohemian National Alliance, as well as by the accredited representatives of the Slovak League. ”

“ It was expected by many that the Chicago convention would be a stormy one. It is inevitable that some complaints should arise in connection with running an organization which was called into existence by a great emergency and which grew up in three years from a small body of enthusiasts into a society with 250 branches and an income of hundreds of thousands. ”