Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-18
FRANCIS koPEckY, OF LONDON,
PREDICTS REPUBLIC AFTER
WAR.
COMES As DELEGATE
FROM CZECH SOCIETY
Prominent Bohemian Visiting Among
countrymsn in Iowa to SECURE CO.
operation in Meeting New Conditions
says Austria Will BE Dismsmbsred
by War.

how 1t would affect the United States
was given Monday morning in an in
terview with Francis Kopecky of Lon.
don. England. Mr.. Kopecky. who has
been in the United States for four
weeks, also made some interesting
statements about the war in general.
Mr.. Kopecky is the secretary and
official delegate of the London Czech
(Bohemian) committee. During the
war he has visited in Paris and other
important points. His official position
enabled him to get in touch with the
European situation especially as its
affects the results for Austria in case
the allies win. He was in Cedar
Rapids to attend meeting Of the
Bohemian National alliance. Mr..
Kopecky declared:
Bohemia is s1re of independence.
We have learned this from influential
men in England and France. Bohemia
will get complete freedom. She will
not be connected with Austria, for
there will be no Austria after the war.
Bohemia will get q constitution like
the constitutions Of France, or Eng
land or the United States. This new In
dependent nation will include Bohemia,
Moravia, present Silesia and the coun-
try of the Slovaks. The Slovaks will
have what we might call home rule.
mo. there Is no fear In England
that Russia would have too much in
fluence over Slav states in Europe.
states such as Bohemia and Serbia.
England and Russia want to remain
friends for all time to come.
To Connect Great Nations.
"Bohemians are really English in
feeling and ideas. We know their
great strife for progress and culture.
Their ideas of government are the
ideas Of England, France and the
United States. Their ideal is the ideal
for freedom. It Is in this respect that
Bohemia will be one Of the great con-
Meeting links between the English
speaking world. In which the United
States Is included, and the great Slav
world. Progress and culture in Boz
hernia will have its effect on Bohemia's
neighbors. The English. French ana
American idea Of freedom will have
great influences in the east, because
this idea will come to q great extent
thru Bohemia"
Not, military Nations.
that there Is no danger Of militarism
In q union Of English speaking nations
and France with the Slav nations. In
the United States you hate militarism.
Il il against your nature. The same Is
the case in England. and also in
France. And you know that the Slav
IL not a soldier Militarism Is some
what repugnant to his nature. You
must force him to the butchery in
militarism,
"Mflitarism must be crushed, and
the only way 1t can be wiped out is by
the decisive defeat Of Germany. for
militarism is the product Of Germany.
Peace without the decisive defeat Of
Germany would mean another horrible
war in Europe in the near future.
Germany must be defeated so that she
accepts the terms that are dictated to
her. A German victory would mean
Ea continuation Of the horrors Of small
nations like Bohemia being enslaved.
We must have no moro Of such injus-
Ftice.
Why He 10 Hero.
IT am not in the United States in
the interest of England. am here to
inform Bohemian about the
want the independence Of Bohemia and
one way to get 1t is to win public
opinion England and France are like
the United States when it comes to
public opinion. Public opinion rules
England and France To Insure the
Independence Of Bohemia we must win
public opinion Of France and England.
This great publicity campaign has
f,pl to- ,nlo IN
spite of the small colony of Bohemians
there, and it has been successful in
France. Now we turn to the Bohemians
in America. Our publicity campaign
requires financial help. am in this
country to boost the undertaking sd
that the proper appeal can be made to
the great powers when peace is de-
clared.
Iowa Bohsn,ians Loyal.
That the sympathies the United
States feel with their kin In Europe
should in no way affect the feeling Of
American citizens to the United States
Is the opinion Of Cedar Rapids Boz
expression of loyalty and also includ-
ing the fact that Americans Of Bohem-
ian descent will remain loyal to the
United States and will back the judg-
ment Of President Wilson, under all
circumstances was passed at the mass
meeting held in the c. 8. p. 8. hall
Sunday evening under the auspices Of
the Cedar Rapids branch of the Boz
hemian National alliance.
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