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...back of each leaflet were listed wave lengths and schedules of major free-world stations broadcasting to Czechoslovakia. From Munich, Radio Free Europe urged Czech students, postmen, housewives, civil servants to pick up the leaflets and distribute them as widely as possible...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...
Scrap-happy "A.P." early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...
Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a slapstick one-act opera in 1937 called Comedy on the Bridge. It was a satire on war, and everybody had a good time when they heard the Prague radio premiere that year. Says Expatriate Martinu, sad-eyed, 60, and full of memories of Munich and its aftermath: "Six months later, I could not have written...
...only 7½ hours daily and transmitted a comparatively weak, 7,500-watt signal. Last week RFE began to speak with a more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11½ hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also...