The "Boj legendistů" began in 1922, when Kramář published his book "Five Lectures on Foreign Affairs". An extremely hostile book review of "Five Lectures on Foreign Affairs" was published in the newspaper "Čas" under the initials V.S., but it was quickly realised the author was Masaryk. A number of articles were subsequently published in which Masaryk accused "the domestic resistance" of having done nothing of note during the war, and he accused Kramář of still being loyal to the House of Habsburg as late of 1919, taking out of context Kramář's remark at the Paris Peace Conference that he was still a monarchist at heart. Masaryk further argued, based on the memoirs of Count Maximilian von Coundenhove, the Austrian commander in Prague in 1918, that the work of the "domestic resistance" in proclaiming Czechoslovak independence on 28 October 1918 had been ineffective and implied that Kramář was actually working with Coundenhove to preserve Austrian rule over the Czech lands.