A LETTER FROM BOZENA
To Young Listeners. AM quite sure you receive for the first time a letter from a Czechoslovakian girl. The reason I write to you is because we Czechoslovakians think very much of our country this week, The reason we think very much about our country is because this week it has what you call a birthday. Twentythree years ago Czechoslovakia was born from the heart of Europe, and at the head of this happy beautiful country stood a dear little old man with a white beard and very young eyes. He was the ‘little father’ of our country. Czechoslovakia was happy and healthy and beautiful till the war and trouble came on us three years ago. It seems as though the fist of some ugly and brutal animal smashed and broke us to pieces. And now our children are not happy and healthy like you, they live ih darkness and hunger and misery. No more do they sing the songs of their country. I would like to end my letter with a Czechoslovakian nursery song for you New Zealand children who have shown us a great kindness. On the bridge of Prague Rosemaries grow, Nobody stops to give them a drink But they grow still-beautifully, I think, I will finish my letter by saying cheerio to you in the Czechoslovakian way, " Nazdar," from BOZENA.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 47
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228A LETTER FROM BOZENA New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 47
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