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RV 27 the conference on Foreign Relations at Long Beach, May, 1917, held by the New York Academy of Political Science.

During the period of neutrality the tactics adopted and pursued by the Bohemian National Alliance are perhaps best illustrated by the manifesto of this organization in 1916, in which it was declared that neutrality will be observed in letter and spirit, and that within the limits imposed by American neutrality the Czechs of America were simply seeking to lay before the American public the merits of the Czechoslovak cause. It was this manifesto (1916), addressed to President Wilson, which attracted so much attention and even editorial comment, because of the statement that the Czechs are not hyphenated citizens, but American citizens of Czech origin.

When the United States declared war, the bars were down and Czechoslovak propaganda gained proportionately in force and volume. The first step was the establishment of a press office, called the Slav Press Bureau, in New York City, in the Tribune Building, brought about by the Bohemian National Alliance and the Slovak League of America. And here it may be parenthetically remarked that the names “Czech” and “Czechoslovak” became current only toward the end of