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...military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
...Czech officials insist there will not be a war. So do the Soviets, and I think they will be very careful to avoid the responsibility for war . . . There does, however, seem to be some Czech urgency in preparing for a possible conflict. . . Czech heavy industry is now working mostly for the Russians, producing not finished articles but certain parts that will fit into armament...
...Czech army 70% of the 140,000 enlisted men can be counted as antiCommunist. Among officers the percentage is smaller because those with known democratic leanings have been purged. Some 1,200 officers have already been released or purged, including 25 of the 120 generals. About 14 generals have already escaped. Many, many more would like to escape . . . The western frontier is now more heavily guarded than at any time since the war. There are 45,000 police troops guarding the border and patrolling the Bohemian forests...
...Members of the Czech air force have left the country by the hundreds, some of them flying their own planes. Because the government is worried that others may do so, it is removing many from the air force, which as a consequence is undergoing a marked disintegration...
...charge of nationalism against Tito is a different matter. That one is true, and it is precisely the point where Tito's party is much more closely akin to the Russian party than the Czech, Hungarian, French, British or U.S. Communist parties...