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Last week, as the Foreign Office had foreseen, Czech Premier Antonin Zapotocky went to Pilsen to celebrate liberation after his own fashion. Speaking in the assembly hall of the Pilsen Skoda works, Zapotocky said: "We shall never forget that it was our former Western allies who in Munich . . . weakened and destroyed our defenses . . . Therefore, we cannot believe that the Western capitalist states were at all concerned with our liberty and independence. If anyone fought for our freedom, really defeated and drove out the German invaders, it was solely the heroic Soviet army." Then, on behalf of the workers...
...Fellow and tutor of history at Oxford's Wadham College, he had worked with Winston Churchill on Churchill's monumental life of Marlborough. Right after Munich, he joined the army. He was the first officer to parachute into Yugoslavia,* worked so closely with Tito that the two were once wounded by the same bomb explosion. After the war, a lieutenant colonel with a D.S.O., he returned to Wadham, also began helping Churchill with his famed war memoirs. Last week 36-year-old Bill Deakin took over as Warden of St. Antony...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will fly to the University of Munich Monday to begin a three-months teaching session at the American Institute there...
Voice broadcasts in 24 languages are carried by 38 short-wave transmitters in the U.S. and 19 relay stations at Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network...
...clearest and often the most moving evidence that the Voice has a deep, influence all over the world is furnished by the letters which reach Voice headquarters in New York (about 15,000 a month). One of the most touching in recent mail came from a Munich girl named Ursula, who wrote: "I have a great need to talk to someone . . . Please listen, you who live in a country where everything is so well ordered and yet so free. Will you understand me? Or will you laugh at these thoughts of a 17-year-old girl? Tell...