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Lidice, Czechoslovakia, is now a wheat field dotted with red poppies. People from the neighbouring villages have cleared a 25-foot square plot in the centre of the field, and erected a small crucifix marked “Here Lie the Bodies .of Lidice’s Victims, Murdered June 10, 1942, by the German Invaders.” Recently the Lidice Memorial Committee announced plans for a grander (£500,000) monument: an open cathedral. Details: “The world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal waters will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world.” The Memorial Committee said: “It is a giant creation to dwarf the Colossus of Rhodes. It will stand, like the pyramids, to challenge the hearts of men for countless ages.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 5 (Supplement)
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151NEW COLOSSUS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 5 (Supplement)
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