“ So the Czechoslovak organizations in the United States, represented by the American Czechoslovak Board, agreed to pay each returning volunteer a bonus of $30, which will be supplemented by gifts from local organizations to their own veterans. It is confidently expected that every man will thus receive the same amount which the American government pays to discharged soldiers. ”

“ Czechoslovaks in this country feel a great debt of gratitude to these brave men. They could have stayed at home, for being technically Austrian subjects, before there was a free Czechoslovakia, they were not subject to draft ”