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The Secret Journeys: "The Revolutionary Couriers"
Hájková, Dagmara
The contribution deals with the journeys of Czech-Americans from neutral USA to Austro-Hungarian Monarchy during the First World War. The war limited the personnel traveling, especially, between the belligerent countries. The Czechoslovak independence movement created unique style for secret exchange of the information by means of messengers. The work discusses the criteria for choice of couriers, as well as suitable routes, financial supplies and possibilities of obtaining the passports. It considers practical result of "secret journeys".
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Masarykiana in Bloomington
Hájková, Dagmara
The author presents a collection of documents regarding Masaryk family kept by the Lilly Library in Bloomington (part of the Indiana University). Valuable documents were donated to this library by social worker Ruth Crawford-Mitchel in 1963. In 1919, she helped to establish the Czechoslovak Red Cross in Prague and met Alice Masaryk there. Given, so far not arranged part contains namely a part of personal archives of Alice Masaryk (personal documents, manuscripts, press documentation), and Olga Masaryk-Revilliod (correspondence).
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Emanuel Voska: behind the politics
Hájková, Dagmara
During the World War I, Emanuel Voska, an American Czech, businessman and functionary of immigrants associations got involved in "big politics". As an important representative of the Czech independence movement in America, he won recognition in the field of propaganda and espionage. His success was limited by the war; since he was not able to succeed in a new state - Czechoslovakia - either as an entrepreneur or a politician. The essay analysis Voska´s political assumptions and submits the reasons of his failure.
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Charlotta Garrigue Masaryková during the First World War
Hájková, Dagmara
The article concentrates on the life of Charlotte Masaryk (1850-1923), wife of professor T.G. Masaryk, during the First World War, when her husband and daughter were in exile, her son Herbert died, her daughter Alice was imprisoned and her son Jan was in the Austrian army. The author describes the circumstances of T.G. Masaryk's departure for exile and the ways the family kept in touch. The relationship between Charlotta and Alice and health of Charlotte Masaryk are described. The article is based on the personal papers of Charlotte Masaryk and the family correspondence.
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