HOW CZECHOSLOVAKIA HELPS
What is Czecho-Slovakia’s contribution to tho Allied war effort? Militarily it must necessarily be limited. The size of the Czecho-Slovak army probably does not exceed a division. But if the soldiers are limited iu their scope and power, the Czech people at home are not. Germany is obliged to keep a force of approximately 300,000 men in Czecho-Slovakia. These men are young and fully trained. It is not they who keep tho Czecho-Slovaks captive; it is they who are held captive by the Czecho-Slovaks. This army may not be to the same physical risks as forces in the field, but who shall judge the demoralising and devitalising effect upon an army of occupation and oppression of service, devoid of action and heroism, afriong a civilised people who have successfully resisted systematic German penetration for centuries? Opportunities, under a reign of brute suppression, for sabotage in the Skoda works and oilier factories may be limited, and anv open attempt at revolution might well provoke measures amounting to national extermination. But who shall say that this ini mobilisation of 300,000 Germans is not a service rendered by Czechoslovakia? Czecho-Slovak National Council of America.
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Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 3
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194HOW CZECHOSLOVAKIA HELPS Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 3
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