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Died. Rudolf Beran, 66, pro-German Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1938-39) under President Emil Hacha after the Munich pact and during the first weeks of Hitler's occupation, who was convicted after World War II for collaborating with the Nazis; in prison at Leopoldov, Czechoslovakia...
...Leopoldov Prison in central Czechoslovakia is a 17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found...
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