Czech Minister Refuses to go Home
CAIRO, Oct. 10 The Acting Foreign Minister. Dessouki Abaz Pasha, announced that the Czechoslovakian Minister to Cairo, Dr Frankisek Krucky, has refused to return to Prague on his Government s orders. , „ „ Dr Krucky has asked for the Egyptian Government’s protection. After making a break for freedom across the Czechoslovakian border into Austraia with five companions, a high-ranking Czech General Staff officer stepped from a plane at Northolt last night on his way to reunion with his English wife. . ... The officer, whose identity is being kept secret, said that for two days and nights he and five friends hid in the woods on the eastern side of the frontier without food or water while armed Communist patrols searched for them. . n “Then early one morning we ail made a dash for it,” he said. “Of the six, only three got through. One was shot dead, another died later from wounds and a third was captured. We went through great dangers and hardships, but anything is better than living under the Russians.
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Grey River Argus, 12 October 1948, Page 7
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