Show LI Handcuffed An interesting revelation conc con- con c the brutal Soviet invasIon invasion invasion inva inva- sion of Czechoslovakia has come to light and that is how the Russian army treated Czech Communist Party leader Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander when it occupied Prague AS RELIABLY Y reported was speaking on the telephone in a private office inthe inthe in inthe the Central Committee building when Soviet troopers with machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns bur burt t in They jerked the telephone from his hands ripped the line from the wall and handcuffed him He was then flown to a camp in Slovakia as a prisoner Only when Czechoslovakian Czechoslovakia President Ludvik Svoboda with an iron nerve flew to Moscow and held out for release release release re re- re- re lease did fate take a better turn Svoboda was given an ultimatum Czechoslovakia would be split into two Soviet protectorates much as Hitler had done if he did not agree to back a new Soviet-approved Soviet government SVOBODA refused to discuss the question until and others were freed This and Moscow's gradual realization that Czech citizens were solidly behind the Svoboda regime regime regime re re- re- re gime that it would be next to impossible to form a stooge government that could achieve any following led to release This story from a Czech official official official of of- who was there clearly puts the lie he to Russian claims that Moscow was asked to in in- It is a fine description of democracy style Communist-style cy |