The Archive · 1939

M. Jan Masaryk Says Czechs Will Be Free

Seats of Learning Urged to Protest at Nazi Actions London, Nov, 21.

M, Jan Masaryk, son of the founder of the former Czechoslovakian Republic, in a radio broadcast yesterday said that Prague would "overcome Hitler oppression."

He said that, although the Nazis had closed all' Czech universities for three years, they will be reopened earlier by a liberated Czech people. He called upon all the free universities of the world to protest the closure of Czech institutes of higher learning, "We promise at the grave of the executed students, that we will struggle until the annihilation of the anti-Christ—until we free Europe," he declared,—United Press, Russia is prepared to abandon support of General Chiang Kai-shek in order to secure an arrangement with Japan, but others are doubtful, having regard to the long tradition of Russian political activity in China—- Reuter,

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