NAME OF LIDICE
ADOPTED BY AMERICAN TOWN IN MEMORY OF CZECH MARTYRDOM. MONUMENT AND LIGHT OF LIBERTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK. June 30. The little town of Sternpark Gardens, in Illinois, has decided to adopt the name of Lidice, the village which the Axis razed in Czechoslovakia' as a reprisal for the harbouring of Heydrich’s assassins. The residents are raising funds for the erection of a monument, with a perpetual flame symbolising the light of liberty that Americans are determined to preserve.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 3
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88NAME OF LIDICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 3
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