Meeting: Bohemian National Alliance/ Slovak League of America Entered from New York Times article ; stated time is approximate. At this meeting, described in the article as a mass meeting of "3,000 Czecho-Slovaks," Henri (Henry) Franklin-Bouillon, the newly-appointed French Minister of State, stated that the "Allies inteded the formation after the war of a separate and independent Czech State in Europe." meeting 1917-09-16T15:00:00