The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Bohemia in the American press (1)

BOHEMIA IN THE AMERICAN PRESS.

 

The cablegram from Paris, telling of the anti-Austrian stand of the Bohemian deputies in the Vienna parliament and of riots in Bohemian and Moravian cities was published in practically all the daily papers of the United States. Scrapbook in the offices of the Bohemian National Alliance in Chicago has some 75 different clippings of this cable. A large number of editorials, endorsing Bohemia’s demand for independence, appeared in the American press during the month of June. Many of them were apparently called out by the above cablegram. As far as we could ascertain, following daily papers commented editorially on Bohemia: New York Globe, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Journal, Detroit News, St. Paul Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Omaha Bee, Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Grand Rapids News, Cedar Rapids Republican, Portland (Ore.) Journal, Omaha World Herald, Chicago Journal.

The Literary Digest of June 23 had a one page article, entitled “Our Bohemian Fighters”, giving credit to the Bohemians for the zeal with which they come forward to fight against Germany. The article is illustrated by the picture of Czech volunteers in Canada.

The same group of Bohemian boys, photographed in London, appear in the Chicago Journal, June 22, under the title “Czech Volunteers from U. S. A.”