financial resources necessary for this process. We were also faced with the task of finding competent workers and linking up the whole of our movement in the various Allied States. Finally, the question also arose as to how we were to organize our activity with regard to prisoners of war and fighting forces.
The solution of these problems could not be postponed for long. We were also urged forward by the Czechoslovaks in America, to whom our action then meant a great deal, since there our people were concentrated in serried masses. Moreover, in America, which at that time was still neutral, our action was to have the effect of inciting our people to open warfare against Austria-Hungary, and to clear up the situation among our émigrés who, from a political point of view, were unsettled in their tendencies.
Masaryk asked me to come to London to discuss these matters. It was at the time when the first envoy, Mme. Tvrzická, had just arrived from our fellow-countrymen in America. She had brought news about the situation there, and on behalf of our friends had asked Masaryk for the information and guidance needed by the Czech and Slovak colony.
I started for London on November 21, 1915. At the outset we discussed matters of organization, and then reported to Mme. Tvrzická on our plans and requirements, as well as on the military and political situation in Europe. We decided upon the next step which we should take in England and France immediately after our manifesto was issued. The final decisions on the form which our organization should take were not made until February 1916 when Masaryk visited Paris and Štefánik joined our movement.
During my stay in London Masaryk received a letter from Dr. B. Štěpánek in Holland announcing, as I have previously mentioned, the arrest of several members of our family and of our secret organization in Prague. Masaryk therefore asked me to go immediately to Switzerland to find out exactly what had happened, and what effect it would have upon our communication with the people at home. I was to reorganize with Dr. Sychrava the whole of our arrangements for keeping in touch with Prague, and I was to inform Dürich about the situation in Paris and London.
I returned to Paris on December 6th, and on December 9th I left for Geneva, from where I proceeded to Lausanne for the
