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Toit, Terre, Travail. The D.P.s came to them from as far away as Siberia-a Czech who once taught Latin, an elderly seamstress, a family who lived 14 years in refugee camps. But for Pire. they were never "beggars living off our crumbs." They got "toit, terre, travail" (roof, land, work): "We help them, but only halfway, the other half coming from them." He thought it essential for women to find pride in keeping a clean house with curtains at the windows, and men in earning their own wages, before the "weight of the odor and the noise...
This is the world of French Cartoonist Jean Effel (concocted from the initials of his real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...
IRON CURTAIN AIRLINES are moving into Middle East. Czech State Airline started regular Prague-Cairo flights with Russian-built TU- 104 jets...
Last week, ten years after Eduard Benes unhappily yielded Czechoslovakia to Communist control, the late President's nephew, Bohus Benes, became a U.S. citizen. Czech consul general in San Francisco from 1942 to 1948, Bohus Benes is now a part-time lecturer in political science. Coldly straightforward about the significance of his oath to the U.S., he said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country will ever be liberated...
...December 1944, and the Russians have driven the Germans back into Czechoslovakia. Only diehard Nazis still hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...