After the first general election in Czechoslovakia, Kramář's party, now the National Democratic Party, became a minor player in the various interwar governments of the new state. Later, Kramář worked together with Jiří Stříbrný and František Mareš in the National Union ("Národní sjednocení"). As part of their effort to marginalise Kramář, Masaryk and Beneš started to promote a historical narrative that portrayed "the resistance abroad" in the war as the "true" liberators and the founders of the republic, and the "domestic resistance" were disparaged as collaborators with the House of Habsburg. In what became known as the "Boj legendistů" ("the battle of the legend makers"), until the 1920s Kramář and his allies fought Masaryk and Beneš in a war of words in the press over who was the "true" founders of Czechoslovakia.