Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sikorski and Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, once stood together in support of a Central European federation aimed not at Russia but at Germany. Lately the Poles, heady with resurgent nationalism now that the Allies are beginning to win, have demanded some Czech territory, and Benes stands alone. But Benes still has the good will of Britain and Russia. Said the Czech Government last week, scorning rumors (current in anti-Benes circles in diplomatic Washington) that it was moving to Moscow: "We stand for an agreement between the Western democracies and Soviet Russia in Central Europe. We will...
...following passage seems to me worth printing far & wide as one of the finest tributes to the U.S. Army's World War II training system. It comes from a private letter written to me by a brilliant young Czech, who left Prague just before the fatal 1939 invasion, after graduating from the Prague University Law School with a year's military service, then coming to a U.S. university law school, and now a corporal in one of our camps, after four months of indoctrination as a private...
...given to the Student Council in starting a forum which would be open to all undergraduates and would bring in speakers of national importance to deal with timely issues. It was largely due to the efforts of this committee that Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of the Czech government in exile, was brought here to address the student body. Student representatives have also been invited to sit in on the weekly meetings of the Steering Committee...
Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief...
...become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female cigar store Indians in contrast, contributes a refreshingly different crotic appeal and some acting, to boot. Paul Henreid is a very credible Czech patriot, with just the right amount of anti-fascist fervor...