CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENCE
letter appears in the Appendix as it was given to the press.
To the propagandist the publication of the first document of importance was good fortune indeed. But those in charge did not expect, and could not expect, that in the very beginning all their material would be widely reprinted, and were thankful if the clipping bureaus could prove that even some of the smaller country journals made use of this or that bulletin. Also, it was believed that even if a large number of the bulletins did not actually appear in print, the constant hammering of editors would inevitably do some good, and that at least it should bring sound and truthful information to the editorial sanctums of America. This theory was strikingly substantiated when one of the leading editors of New York, then in charge of an important and respected weekly, informed the director that he always carefully read whatever was sent and filed it for future reference. William Hard, in an article in the Metropolitan Magazine for January, 1920, said that he found the bulletins very useful. For the sake of further illustration of war-time methods, some of the bulletins of the Slav Press Bureau, in addition to the one containing the letter to the Emer-
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