The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Resolutions for Bohemian independence

RESOLUTIONS FOR BOHEMIAN INDEPENDENCE

 

Two resolutions have been introduced in Congress with the purpose of committing the legislative branch of our government to the cause of Bohemian independence. The author of one is Congressman A. J. Sabath, of the Fifth district of Illinois, while in the Senate a similar resolution was introduced by Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa. Both were referred to the respective Committee on Foreign Affairs, where they are held pending a definite expression of opinion on the part of executive officers and also of the American people.

Under these circumstances it is natural that people of Bohemian birth are making strenuous efforts to obtain favorable declarations from public bodies, assemblies and conventions. So far the Chicago city council passed a resolution calling on the President and Congress to make the independence of Bohemian-Slovak lands one of the conditions of peace. Bohemian Protestants who have been very active in the cause championed by the Bohemian National Alliance from the very beginning, are engaged at the present time in securing endorsements of Bohemian freedom from their various denominational bodies. During the month of May the State Congregational Council of Illinois, the Northern Baptist Convention held at Cleveland and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church held at Dallas, made favorable pronouncements on this point. Various appeals and memorials have been presented to these church bodies by Bohemian pastors participating therein. Below is given the one submitted to the Presbyterian General Assembly, of which church, by the way, President Wilson is a member.