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RV 63 A few of the entries will sufficiently substantiate the statement. The following should suffice:

Individual letters are being written to all senators and representatives relative to Capek’s book, The Slovaks of Hungary, and this work is being sent to all senators for the purpose of informing them correctly with regard to the Slovak question.―June 15, 1917.

Among the matters disposed of today were letters to Senators Kenyon and Williams calling their attention to the Magyar agitation. To both senators there were sent The Heart of Europe with autograph signatures of the author, and Mr. Capek’s work, The Slovaks of Hungary. This propaganda is being carried out with a view to influencing the senators in regard to the Slovak phase of the Bohemian question.—June 18, 1917.

A particularly important letter came in from SenaatorSenator [sic] W. S. Kenyon. The senator says that he hopes to speak on the Bohemian question in the near future and requests literature and suggestions. Therefore, the following literature was sent to him: 1. A copy of the Declaration of the Bohemian Foreign Committee. 2. A copy of Austrian Terrorism in Bohemia. 3. The Slavs Among the Nations. 4. A Program for Peace. 5. A memorial to the international by the Bohemian branch of the American Socialist Party. 6. An excerpt from this week’s Literary Digest. 7. Copies of New Europe beginning with No. 21 and ending with No. 33, inclusive. His attention was also