Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 230

D 4 RAYMOND TRAVNIK, Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota; Rev. M. FABENKO, Cleveland; W.MUZIK, President of the Czechoslovak Society of America; and Mrs. MARIE KRAL of the Nat'l Alliance of Czech Catholics. From the serious and restrained mood of the delegates it was visible they had come for the one purpose of agreeing on a common line of action to be taken to guarantee a specdy end of HITLER and the axis. There Was a notable absence of the usual convention hilarity and abandon. An International Event It was a wartine meeting dominated by a wartime grimness. That the deliberations of the congress would have international repercussions was evidenced in the more than thousand telegrane from all parts of the world thet reached the congress during the sessions. One of the wires greeting it was from a Czech group in Teheran, Porsie; there were many from Slavic groups in Chile, Argentina, Canada, and throughout America. Soviet writers and scientists and members of the Yuglslav government in Kuibyshev wired the congress Dessages of greetings and good wishes. The Congress was not only an event significant in the history of America's 15 million Slav-descended citizens but fraught with meaning for the destiny of the more than 200 millions of Slav peoples across the seas engaged in a life-and-death struggle against Nazi enslavers. For the first time the peoples of the diverse Slavic groups in America were reaching a common understanding on a world-wide issue--a matter that gave delegates a feeling of considerable satisfaction. Far beyond the brilliantly delivered keynote speeches and the iron note of resolve sounded in the resolutions-- all of which raised the assembly to wild cheers of onthusias-was the vibrant sense of unity which, given expression by the congress carried to the Slev peoples Sp 230