Admiral Horthy had his white horse saddled, the Hungarian troops put on their parade uniforms and began marching in expectation of a tremendous welcome from the people Of that province. Instead of the expected welcome, they received an unpleasant surprise from a brigade of the Czechoslovak army under the command of Gen. Leo Prchala, stationed in that part of the country. For weeks the Brigade resisted the Hungarians. Having practically no supples and actually no hinterland they yet defended every inch of Czechoslovak soil.
Finally a German panzer division had to come to the Hungarian's rescue and attacked the Czechoslovak brigade from its unprotected right flank. That induced the general to order his troops to march over the high mountains into Poland. From then until September, 1939. when Hitler and his hordes invaded Poland the Czechoslovak brigade made ful' use of its training quarters and prepared for the liberation fight to come, Those who did not die in Po-lend reached Rumania and were shipped from there to France to carry on side by side with the Allies.
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