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...Arrived this week: Jaroslav Konvalinka and Karel Truksa, engineer and dispatcher, respectively of the Czech train which made a dash for freedom across the border into Western Germany (TIME, Sept. 24). At the invitation of Lawrence Cowen, president of Lionel Corp., they will settle with their families in Irvington, N.J., work in Lionel's toy-train plant...
...hilly Sudetenland and the spires of Prague, thousands of white paper leaflets fluttered down. Each night for four nights 2,000 plastic balloons spilled out 2,000,000 leaflets. That was the way the people of Red Czechoslovakia got the real story last week of how Locomotive Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka raced his Prague-Asch "freedom train" across the Czech border into Germany (TIME, Sept...
...Konvalinka himself helped the West's new private and enterprising propaganda agency, Winds of Freedom,* launch its balloons at the German town of Selb, where the train, with 108 people aboard, had ended its escapade. The leaflets carried pictures of Konvalinka, the train, and a group of 18 of the 31 Czechs who did not go back to Czechoslovakia. They also carried a message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just...
...Asch, its last stop. But instead of slowing down, it picked up speed. On the Asch station platform, baggage men watched wide-eyed as the locomotive, a 3-ft.-high Red Star on the front of its boiler, roared toward them. "I pushed the throttle all the way forward," Konvalinka said later...
...train lurched through the Asch station and raced on through the crowded freight yards. Comrade Conductor Beb rushed for the emergency brake and pulled it. Nothing happened: Engineer Konvalinka had done his job well. Beb ran to one of the hand brakes, but the tight-lipped men who had been watching the brakes elbowed him away...