CZECHOSLOVAKIA FIGHTS AND HOPES
(Contributed) ZECHOSLOVAKS all over the world celebrate October 28 as the anniversary of the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic. In one country this year this celebration will be prohibited. In Czechoslovakia. There, under the rule of the Germans the Czechoslovak people will remember this day not by celebrating, but by a general boyeott of all German institutions. The streets will be empty, newspapers will not be bought, tramcars will be empty. The members of the Gestapo, the Storm .Troops and the German Army of occupation, will feel alone on the deserted streets and places of all Czechoslovakian towns and villages. Their imagination will fill the streets with angry Czechoslovak nationals eager to revenge all the cruelties, all the sentences sending Czechoslovaks to the gallows and to concentration camps. Many of them came to occupy free Czechoslovakia, How many of them will be able to leave? In the meantime, the fight against the rule of Himmler and his companions in crime, is going on. Not a day, not a night passes without sabotage against the oppressors. Trains are. being derailed, munitions blown up, grain stores burning as beacons of Czechoslovakia’s approaching freedom. This fight of course demands its victims. A continuous stream of Czechoslovaks enter the torture chambers. of the Gestapo. The concentration camps are filled to the limit and the hangman is never idle, But Czechoslovaks who escaped from the Nazis are not idle either. In the first year after the occupation of Czechoslovakia there was already a Czechoslovak Army and Air Force in England, ee
fully trained and eager to fight. This army proved its valour in the Middle East and gained the respect of all Allied fighting men in this theatre of war. Berlin had its share of Czechoslovak bombs, so had the rest of Germany. Another Czechoslovak Army has been established in the U.S.S.R. and has already been in action. These Czechoslovaks fight together with their Allies, creating a new brotherhood of free men, preparing the thorny path for a really free world; a world free for all men, regardless of nationality, religion, or race,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 7
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352CZECHOSLOVAKIA FIGHTS AND HOPES New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 174, 23 October 1942, Page 7
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