Cleveland, Apr. 3.
Speaking at a meeting here yesterday evening, both Dr, Eduard Benes, former Czech President, and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City expressed their conviction that Czechoslovakia will find her freedom once again.
"Victory will return," Dr. Benes stated. "It will be the victory of a free Europe. It would seem that Czechoslovakia was too prosperous and too democratic, from the viewpoint of her totalitarian neighbours. The dictator cannot afford to allow democracy to prosper in a neighbouring state."
Dr. Benes then expressed satisfaction at the recent scathing attack against the German action in Cze-che slovakia delivered by Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State.
"I do not suggest that brute force should be opposed to brute force," he concluded. "But the world is beginning to realize that it must put an end to the moral and social disinter gration the development of which we are witnessing in certain Central European states, or else our civilization will disappear."
Czech State "Kidnapped"
Mayor La Guardia opened his address by stating that he would not use diplomatic terms, "Czechoslovakia has not been taken," he said "Her Republic has not been destroyed. Czechoslovakia was kidnapped. When the kidnapper speaks of a protectorate he uses the same terms as the man who kidnaps a child and keeps him until a ransom is paid, finally killing the infant if he receives no money. Crime cannot continue to remain an object of respect,"
Mayor La Guardia considered that war could be avoided if the United German hands.—Havas,
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