Show 1 A CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM tt h a j d 1 4 kJ I I av i I II y y Nr J- J r I r w Y r- r Imagine reading the following government an- an r 1 V in the Chronicle t t. t All men of Hinckley have been shot The women V have been deported to a concentration camp and the children sent to appropriate centers of tion All buildings of the village were leveled to the gro ground nd and th the name of the village was immediately immediate immediate- 1 ly Y abolished Those are the words of an an official Nazi statement issued recently except that the name of the town waS was LIDICE a quiet little community of about the size of Hinckley The Government asks us to put in inthe inthe inthe the name of the nearest town of approximately the same size size size- hence we use Hinckley In Lidice pronounced say Leed men and women had lived for more than years A Lidice son brought his bride to his parents' parents home his children children chil chi l- l dren were born in the same room where his grandfather grandfather grandfather grand grand- father first saw light Above the roofs of the town rose the spire of St. St Margarets Margaret's Church a symbol of community faith since the building of that church in 1736 In Lidice a farmer with earth sticking to his boots greeted the coal dusty miner who as a boy sat beside beside beside be be- side him in school On a warm day the tapping of the shoe repairman sounded through an open door like a faint echo of the blacksmiths blacksmith's hammering A storekeeper going to the paused in Welson Welson Wel- Wel son Street named for the American president whom they revere to gossip with a man carving children laugh and play and run to get the cookies their heir m mothers bake Life We was not so easy after the German conquerors i I came The men had to do compulsory jobs jobs jobs- were I ordered to make munitions to kill their friends the democracies Limits were set on worship in the old i 1 church The women didn't have such good things things- food was rationed But the people lived on they worked they loved they dreamed of the very liberty so rudely taken away from them Freedom was their a aim I Then two men fatally wounded Reinhardt Heydrich Heydrich Hey- Hey Heydrich who as Nazi protector of Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia earned the merited ti title tIe of Hangman That happened happened happened hap hap- on a highway which doesn't even go through Lidice The Lidice people told the Nazi secret police that they didn't know anything about the two men But the Gestapo agents learned that Lidice folk still dreamed of freedom they claimed they found aradio a aradio radio fo forbidden bidden by th the Ger German CIT conquerors and arms and munitions Several beveral ot of the me the Lidice young men had escaped to join loin United Nations forces in infighting infighting fighting against the Germans And the Nazis followed followed followed fol fol- lowed their policy of bloody vengeance vengeance- the murder murder murder mur mur- der of more than innocent men and So when you read of Lidice imagine what it would men len if a town of peaceful orderly fine citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens of the size of Hinckley was crushed erased its inhabitants killed widows imprisoned done b by Y merciless savage foreigners Then you can sense what today we must must fight for our boys your boys all of us for if conquered a like fate awaits even all Germanys Germany's foes A whole town wiped out The Hangman avenged ed in a blood bloody Y slaughter The wars of Indians cruel as they were are mild in comparison Yes we must I fight to escape it England senses its need need need- which is dire We must sense ense it even f I in this inland far-inland area |