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...along Route Coloniale 11 in his tank, far in advance of his column. "Return at once," ordered his superior officer by the radio. "Give me five minutes more," said Marion. In that five minutes the young French reservist uncovered a Communist arms dump: 200 tons of American, Chinese, Japanese, Czech and French weapons, including 1,000 rifles, 60 submachine guns, 22 machine guns, 51 bazookas, 114 mortars, and three Russian-made trucks...
Prague Radio proudly announced that Czech Track Star Emil Zatopek, who despite his eccentric, floppy running style shattered three Olympic records, had become a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. Emil, whose Olympic feats have already won him a promotion from captain to major, and selection as representative to the December "World Peace Congress" in Vienna, decided to drop over to the track in Houstka. northern Bohemia, and celebrate the big news. Major Zatopek's latest exhibition records, according to Prague: 15 miles, run in 1 hr. 16:26.4; 25 kilometers in 1 hr. 19:21.8; 30 kilometers...
...orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors his speech with some phrases in the native tongue...
...knows that to these shores came oppressed people from every land under the sun; that here they found homes, jobs, and a stake in a bright, unlimited future ... In every town and village in Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the channel ports, that truth is known ... to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hands and crosses the frontier tonight-or to the Italian who goes to some American consulate-this ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran Act. With leadership . . . we should have had and we must...
...public-school teacher in a Communist country may not have to think very much, but that does not mean that life is any the less exhausting. Last week, in News from Behind the Iron Curtain, a new monthly publication of the National Committee for a Free Europe, an escaped Czech teacher told why. Sample week in his former life...