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Show PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1939 page thr: GR:.iiil-GZECl! difficultie; ;vxx. . -V .a - BY AliTyUIt GAETII Into the lull of the European situation, brought about by the ' need of Germany's manpower . to , sow and harvest her crops, conies the disturbing1 news that a ,Ger-. ,Ger-. man police officer was killed In Kladno, about .twenty miles north- west of Prague, last week, " It is supposed that Czechs killed him, I, although the assassin has not yet i been apprehended, and hd oriS has , lcen tried and found guilty. The action being taken by the Neurath f regime la that which a large pow-' pow-' pt . r.iistomarllv takes aealnst a . small nation : a demand tot retri bution and indemnity. The city or Kladno ' has been fined Kct 600,-000.00 600,-000.00 ($20,000.) and "will be" subject sub-ject to serious restrictions tand reprisals. (If the United States ( government finedCProvo $10,000 because a G. haan. was killed here by some criminal, you would have parallel action.) Legally such action ac-tion Is impossible in the ' United States and also ' in - Germany according ac-cording to the old law of the Keich. . Germany ' has , stated that Czechoslovakia has been placed under the protection of the Heich, but this action demontrates that the same rights with the German sections of the country The -Deutsche Alfgemelne Zei-tung Zei-tung of March 18, 1939, in an article ar-ticle .entitled "Check-Mate" writes i "The Czech people now live under the protection of the German Reich which it has en-Joyed en-Joyed for over a thousand years. The Constitution gives --- vhe non-uerman population autonomy au-tonomy which is diiferent from . that promised by the treaty ot Versailles irt' that it will really be put into , practice, and the Czech people will really be self-governing." self-governing." . ''. The Westdeutsche Beobachter of Cologne on March 19 wrote under the title "Vvhat Do the Czechs bay": - . .vXv . 'The Czech people ot Bohemia Bo-hemia wilKUve onAtney'wili en- joy the freedom which they refused re-fused to give the nationalities who lived in their state for twenty years.. They will go a'uout their work and perhaps ; onVjiay be proud of the great a Hfilch to st wnlch they beiong, which will ' protect tnenu win represent their, interests 4in the v- world, and to which they have been bound " insolubly tnjeough X'a thousand years or nistory." , Old People Disgruntled V i vtecently I discussed the European Euro-pean situation with a N native of central Europe . who Just came Ironr there. 'ihe person gave me an interesting assurance: V "There will be no war in Europe, 4rtScause Hitler will not jstart it. He is no longer sure of his own fteODies.1 The Old folks are becom ing fUhoroughly disgrumicd.In:j spite of the tact that he obtained the exeat Skoda munition factor- 'Hies ot Czechoslovakia and m- creased his armaments. Hitler's Germany is today worse, off economically eco-nomically than she was a year ago. ; That is evident in Czechoslovakia; Czecho-slovakia; which,; before 7 the recent , crisis, was relatively well off. The Czech farmer is today under the same-Kazi A control , trom which his German brother sufferst-Tlei must deliver from 75 to 80per cent of his produce to the government. govern-ment. Where the people of rague, Just a few months ago, went out into the country to buy milk, butter, but-ter, and eggs from the farmer the xarmer himself now comes into the city to attempt purchases, because be-cause he no longer has control of his own products. They are needed need-ed for the large army and war program. There are days when np milk, butter, or eggs can be obtained in the city, ine Czechs are being forced to accept the same war rations that now exist in Germany. , Regarded An Demented "Such conditions do not convince con-vince the Czech that Hitler "is a savior. By the average Czech he Sirl Attacked, Then Murdered is regarded as a demented maniac of whom the country must be rid. The - continuous provocation of German officials, and they are everywhere replacing. Czechs even in Czech sections, is slowly arousing arous-ing the Czech to the point where he is preparing to stage a revolution revolu-tion as soon as trouble breaks out in Europe." , . . . " 4 -Although prominent Czechs have been Interned in concentration, concentra-tion, camps, something the Nazi regime denies ut I hav$ verified through Czech , correspondence which informs me that . some of my own" friends are imprisoned, the - masses of the Czech people are preparing to undertake the same type of resistance they staged stag-ed in the World war. Czech legions are already forming, in ' France, Poland, Russia," 1 and other countries. coun-tries. X- " : InterestlngLetter " --"-: i A On June seventh an interesting letter came to us from one of our friends. It was Unsigned and ran the gauntlet of the censors.. It reads: - . Dear friends: A year ago on this date something happened if you remember, re-member, (first Czech mobilization mobiliza-tion against Germany), and for fear that we 1 Czechs would want to talk it over, an order , was issued that there could be . no public meetings or gather-ings gather-ings ; today. We are supposed '"" to stay quietly at home or go to the Agricultural Fair and look at the rabbits. As it has keen .pouring all day, naturally natural-ly It wasn't very hard to keep order. t ' -i If ; you were1 here Mr. Gaeth, 1 ' would like to hear some ol the "confabs" you and my hus- band would have of course, not in a restaurant any u more. When you two gotTtogether, you relieved your feelings tjy comparing experiences and sympathizing with each other, and it was worth listening to, I'll ' sayf If you only x knew what's going on now; It's a good thing you are in the United Unit-ed States and have plenty to do! . German sentries , guard the castle and many public buildings, build-ings, and -there are a good many green uniforms to : be seen, yet in the streets, fcut mostof the tanks, reflectors, and heavy guns have disappeared. disap-peared. However plenty of those heavy G. 'trucks roll in and out of Prague and are always al-ways covered securely with canvas so no one knows what's inside. (The state treasures. gold emblems, old relics and valuablesJiave all disappeared and arereputedly in Be ran.) My hiteband has his lectures the same as usual. We live about1 the same life as before except for a smaller salary (most salaries were reduced a third) and a much higher cost of living. (The fats and eggs so essential to the Czech diet can often not be securedr-sa the people are not able to make their national dishes buchty, knedliky, etc. The store are pretty well sold out of their stocks. Smart folks' (like ourselves) our-selves) went the sixteenth of March, and, bought woolen goods for suits. (Germans use inferior substitutes Bata's cheap shoes were all sold but two weekj later. (Germany is sacrificing essential raw materials ma-terials to keen-these industries going, for warmaterials). We bought hand-made; shoes at Kc 160. ($5.00) a paik (But there is a severe penalty against hording). Some friends are in concen tration camps, have left the country, committed suicide, or are living in .daily anxiety ot what will happen next. No more Jewish stores in Prague. "Aryan" signs in many of the stores, and Manes cafe (one of the most popular) sayst t if J Bound and gagged body of 12-year-old Marian Ellis, pictured with pet dog, was found by a brother In a culvert hear her Nashville, Tenn1 home. Police said ' she had been criminally assaulted, then slain. Fire Demon in Chinatown v ' 1 . ? ' Si ,11 i i ' 1 - 0 I i J - , f t- .erf f fm.. I; "Nearstl nejsou vitani" TNon- Atyahs not welcome). The -Gestapo (police) office has a sign so I "heard "Dogs and Jews not - wanted." We don't expect1 to go' to the United States only under pressure and more unbearable circumstances. You can't take anything out 'of the country, - and to leave it is a pity, al- - though . many have done ' so. . . Best regards from ' your old friends in . Prague." . Typical Description ; y This is a description' of the type of conditions that are to make tne Czechs proud of the Third Reich. Hitler will yet suffer from-4ndi-gestion and find that the Czechs he gobbled up on March ISNcannot be digested. They resisted 300 years of Hapsburg dominance and came out of it with vitality. Even worse than the lot of the Czechs is that oX the Jews. From a letter written in Prague on May 14, the following is quoted: "I thank you hearitlyxor the knd lines of April 19. You inform in-form me that you fcave received re-ceived fifteen similar letters from people here. If I may state my opinion, I am very surprised-that it was only fil teen, for you are well-known here and people are desperate. ihis week wul be emorcea tne new anti-Jewish -Vlawsivhieh have already been announced by the press: No Jew is allowed allow-ed to1turther participate' in : a public, profession (Judge teacher, teach-er, professor). By this bill my profession will also be closeu. do you wonder that we are all endeavoring to leave the country:" coun-try:" icec a .recent law makes it impossible im-possible lor any males under the age 61 forty-five to receive pei-aussion pei-aussion to leave unless they are Viysicaily incapacitated. All those who are eligibie to leave and do do are disfranchised and outlawed.' jhey lose all? their 'rights; and their property is placed in custody cus-tody of tne German government, Hajfis immediately confiscated, ihey ae entitled to the other half, but can only take, a small frac- Such is the lot of the . central European in this enlightened wwenueth century. Thank God for America! Lighining kills Yoiithi 4 Horses GLASGOW,? Mont, June .24 (U.PJ Lightning t struck? and killed 19-year-old Norman Frye and four horses -with which he was plowing late yesterday. -f ' , - The body .was undiscovered for several hours. ? : The bolt accompanied torrential rainfall and " hail. ; Crops were damaged sugntiy. - Firemen had to worm . themselves and ; their . huge apparatus through narrow, sharply-winding streets like this when two crowded crowd-ed "rabbit-hutch" tenements burned in New York's Chinatown, lleccuers found seven dead, expected to discover more in the ruins. 1 Jaycees Vote Down ! , Military Training TULSA, Okla June 24 KE) The United States Junior cham Ser of commerce . today declined to approve a . resolution recommending recom-mending that military training be made a . part of "the routine for Civilian Conservation corps enrol-lees. enrol-lees. 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