The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/America is popular in Bohemia

AMERICA IS POPULAR IN BOHEMIA.

 

While the Austrian Government is trying to stir up hate against America as the country that is responsible for the prolongation of the war by raising the morale of the Allies and their will to fight until victory, the Czechoslovak people use every opportunity to manifest their confidence in and friendship for the United States.

In the Czech papers unusual prominence is given to the lectures of Professor Karel Velemínský on America. This scholar spent a year in this country shortly before the war, studying the American school system, and is now lecturing under auspices of the most important societies of Bohemia and Moravia, such as the Society of Engineers, Bohemian Provincial Agricultural Bureau, Manufacturers’ Association of Moravia, etc.

Recently reports came to this country that the name of President Wilson was loudly cheered on the streets of Prague. Since then the Czech newspapers published the report that President Wilson has invited Alsatians, Czechoslovaks and Poles to take a prominent part in the celebration of the Fourth of July, and that this occasion will be used to bring into prominence the demands of the oppressed peoples of Germany and Austria for liberation.

Every public expression made by the American Government in favor of the Slavs and Latins of Austria is welcomed and given all possible publicity by the journalists of Bohemia.