It seems that the same church that consigned Huss to the flames was somewhat alarmed over the activities of Mormon Elders. The new mission had to contend against the sedition and slander of the representatives of that church in the courts of the land, and the leading clerical newspaper at Prague, fostering an anti-Mormon campaign, had to be brought into court to retract charges that Mormon Elders were the tools of Nazi Germany in a great espionage net which was being developed to subject the independent and liberty-loving Czechs.