Prague's Culture Vanishes as Nazis Turn Czechs Into Peons
Benes, Eduard
Prague's Culture Vanishes as Nazis Turn Czechs Into Peons By Eduard Benes Eduard Benes, chief of the Czecho-Slorakian Government in Exile, which was' recognized by England a few months...
...Because of the social reforms carried out during his premiership, Blum has long been hated by the industrialist appeasers...
...But Trotsis3j$tin exile, entered upon a new phase of his biography...
...For the many hundreds of thousands of devoutly religious P*H* Jews, this is persecution as (brutal as actual physical torture...
...In the same way, I believe, the pyramids were constructed four thousand years ago by Egyptian tyrants...
...Were they potentially tfc.™ tency througlb the period when Lenin-~n I -- As aiready stated, Trotsky himself was exTrOtsky-were , in power...
...one of our best-known mathematicians is now clerk in the Ministry of Communications, while one of our great biologists is employed in a warehouse...
...The nt~- . Moreover, the vengeful Georgian could not jority was in the hands at Kamenev, Trbtskl 's forgive Trotsky his exposes of all the Kremlin brother-in-Ia~, his friend, Zinoviev, and :Stalin...
...In reality, however, he was only the principal actor in Lenin's play, who knew how to utilize his unquestionable abilities for his own purposes...
...These new laws are so strict that a recent censored despatch from Bucharest reported that Nazi diplomats were intervening with the Romanian Government Application of the new decrees, it was said, would so uproot the country 8 economic life that the flow of supplies to Germany would be hindered...
...XJUNGARY and Romania, squabbling over control of Transylvania, unite in * * obeying the German command to crack down on their Jewish populations...
...With Lenin's death he was hurled from the stage, crushed and robbed of his achievements by the Bolshevik machine, as be himself bad' formerly helped the machine to crush and rob others...
...One after another of' those who might have supported him because of opposition to Stalin deserted him...
...Czech employers in Czecho-Slovakia who wanted to give them jobs were not allowed to do so...
...To the task of UfesJjW his "theory" of "proletarian" terror devoted his gifts as a pamphleteer, his |K lectical" ability, his habits of slandering «W» nents...
...The fact tha t But there was also an aspect of Trotsky's the opposition within the Communist Party was activities in exile detrimental to Stalin...
...For the BolSheviks in the KremlVt Trotsky's conduct in the revolution, could not this struggle was much more dangerous th$J...
...The Nazi machine is destroying it by brutal force wherever a vestige is found...
...Fourth International," published leaflets for ~bunal, prescribing the rules for the conlj.uc "illegal" distribution in Russia, and declared 'of the judges...
...Masaryk University in Brno, one of the finest intellectual centers in central Europe, has suffered a similar fate...
...The German language is being forcibly introduced in all districts, even in pure Czech environment...
...Paradoxical as it may seem, it -was Trotsky who gave a Russian veneer to the Red Army...
...The tendency of the Nazi policy^ Czecho-Slovakia leaves no doubt...
...among other things, the statement made to this .'opponents as political hostages for the bebavi0ii( " effect · to Hitler by Francois Poncet, French of their groups alid parties, , r. ambassador to Berlin...
...Specially trained brain workers are being terribly abused...
...Politically—to say nothing of the moral side —Trotsky found himself in his last years in .complete isolation...
...In the meantime other socalled "neutral" nations have suffered the same experience or will face it during the next months...
...He organized the Red Army...
...There are about 3,155,000 Jews in the territories now under Hitler's mastery...
...swan— a—**u—^¦aM 8,000,000 European Jews Trapped by Axis War Machine By David Bernstein *jriCfIMS of totalitarian hatred, scapegoats for military defeat, millions of ^-'European Jews face an immediate outlook of terror, hunger, and despair...
...Romanian Jews may not sell newspapers, magazines or books printed in the Romanian language...
...that is why England struggles to the end, and why the free nations of the world will be compelled to fight it out...
...This is nothing, but modern slave labor...
...Today, after twenty-two months of Nazi occupation, the whole structure of our scientific and artistic life has been purposely demolished...
...Says Dr...
...I - - ¦ - - —mm...
...The Czech population is only permitted to pay taxes for their upkeep...
...The scientific apparatus of our colleges and universities has been completely destroyed...
...The second was Vatzetis...
...In November, 1989 State Secretary Franek, a former Austrian officer and now one of the most cynical Nazis in Prague, launched a general attack against the whole of Czech intelligentsia...
...IV IN the civil war Trotsky performed for Lenin * the inestimable service of "organizer of victory...
...Almost immediately after the fall of France, the venal press began its campaign against Jews, Freemasons, liberals and refugees from Germany...
...on January 30, 1933, there were 522,000...
...The Stalin regime ultimately expressed its gratitude to these "specialists" and old officer cadres by dismissing them and executing many of them...
...The hunt is now at an end Kamenev and ZinOviev found themselves to !he It is the business of the public prosecutor now "traitors...
...What has happened in Poland 'has also occurred in other lands overrun by National Socialism...
...Today it is one of the tasks of unhappy Czecho-Slovakia as well as that of Poland, to demonstrate clearly to the outside world, what will happen to them if Hitler's armies should be victorious...
...It always had close intellectual ties to the artistic and scientific life of the entire world...
...Most of them have been compelled to do forced manual labor in German war industries...
...A series of antiJewish laws enacted in Budapest has destroyed the complete economic structure of Jews in Hungary...
...Trotsky believed that he was playing an original role...
...The important, deternuniaf tor was: were they potentially a dangef' w Soviet regime...
...Trotskyism" became a kind of revolutionary snobbism, and these "Trotskyists" were recruited largely from among people who studied Russia, the Russian Revolution, and "Leninism" through Trotsky's books...
...I5Ued the ilrder creating the original RevOlution- Stalin knew what he was about...
...While political oppression threatened all other forms of public life, Czech intelligence flourished...
...The social order began to disintegrate...
...Otherwise the hellish system of slavery, poverty, destruction, and barbarism of the Hitler dictatorship, this "National Socialism," may overwhelm the whole of our civilization...
...The third was Yegorov...
...A democratic constitution guaranteed complete liberty and freedom to all religious, national and racial minorities...
...i For days bewildered Jews wondered where they might go, since any other town would offer as little hospitality as the city in which they were born...
...His public appearances were surrounded by pomp...
...Trotsky, 0!1 the other hand, . ,These are only...
...Trotsky, too," supplieq the idea of "preventiv~f All these activities of Trotsky fit perfectly terror" in the trial 'of members of the Centrar into the Bolshevist theory of tbe need of exCommittee of the Party of Socialist-RevOlutionl" terminating "potential" pretenders to the Soviet ists in 1922...
...Trotskyists...
...Workers and small merchants haw been hardest hit...
...There were few Russians among them...
...Its alSfJB whplesale national destruction of the CsaeM A people of eight to nine millions are to ki erased from the map of Europe, to give Wtt to a "Greater Germany," That is the avo«S Nazi purpose...
...It/ reveals the Nazi plan of systematic destruction, carried out ruthlessly against...
...Nazis compelled the Czech 'Protectorate' Government to undertake the solution of the Jewish question according to the Nuremberg laws, the Czech Government evaded this difficult responsibility, not desiring to proceed to such a brutal action...
...The people sank to the lowest standard of living, to a sub-proletarian existence—materially and spiritually...
...He founded his wrote the "constitution" of the Revolutionary...
...The Czechs have proved in> history t|3jj capacity to take heavy blows...
...Ultimately, he was caught in the mt JgPjf own theory of government terror—and pysjas* W'hen Trotsky wrote "In Defense «*2J* ism" (a book in reply to Kautsky's "CtSJg* nism and Terrorism"), in which he ruthless terror as an instrument of Bo**]1*** rule, including wholesale execution of **f5S captives of the Tcheka, he could not and not imagine that he himself would lifts**** fall victim of his own theory...
...I ET me say a few special words about the *¦* present cultural situation in my fatherland...
...Later the regulations were slightly rela^d, and ten thousand were permitted to remain...
...Very soon ary · Tribunal...
...A progressive spirit of Western civilization, the spirit of the writings of Masaryk, prevailed in all spheres...
...There no longer is any opportunity for our younger Czech generation to study law...
...It is not an open fight...
...No one defended more zealously the -utilization of terror against political opponents of the dictatorship than Trotsky...
...This is the second attempt to introduce a ghetto in Warsaw...
...This will be a warning to the rest of the civilized nations of the world to resist in time, as long as there is a chance to fight...
...History will remember him as an actor who played upon a stranger's stage—Lenin's stage...
...I have not the least doubt that the forces of civilized mankind will be victorious in the end, although the struggle may be extended and hard...
...accordance with the procedure pmcri~d of Bolshevism'S";mockery of all human laws...
...Shunted into ghettoes, deprived of economic opportunities, their schools closed and worship forbidden, Polish Jews undergo hardships almost beyond their capacity to survive...
...Jews are barred from holding any official positions in the governmnt...
...This shrewd maneuver proved a great boon to the Bolsheviks...
...The cunning Georgian , Before embarking upon the task of justif' g l even ordered the G. P. U. to give Trotsky some th~e terror ideologically, Trotsky personally is-ji money in Constantinople...
...By virtue of the logical cons~ue&ce to run doWJl the assassins...
...No word is found of Czech history...
...Although this should go without saying, I consider it necessary in this present age of perverted moral ideas to declare with pride that Czechoslovakia for a period of twenty years knew no anti-Semitism...
...This phase was marked by new successes, as a pamphleteer and autobiographer...
...I do not believe that the Nazi system, terror, its oppression, and its wars wffl aw...
...In that trial Trotsky behaved i1 ' POWeI', thug Jll'OmJltin g Stalin to execute n uma .. ma~n;r...
...It will remain an historical fact which •expresses the traditional Czech sense for religious, racial and social toleration that it was the German invaders who finally had to introduce the Nuremberg laws even in this foreign country, thus overriding the enforced compromise proposals of the Czech Government which appeared too humane to the Germans...
...j He became so fascinated by the play that he forgot that the stage upon which he was playing was the Bolshevik stage, that he was there, only by the caprice of Lenin...
...In Lithuania, it is reported, both organized workers and the middle classes now face a fate similar to that which has befallen members of the Bund, the Jewish Socialist Party in Poland...
...And Mandel, at Minister of the Interior under Paul Reynaud, incurred the enmity ;of the pro-Hitlerites by his desire to continue the struggle against Germany...
...i ( VV A8 f°r the Soviet Union, the gobbling of large slices of Poland, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Bukovina have brought hundreds of thousands of Jews under Stalin's domination...
...the first was abandoned when typhoid swept the city a few days after the German occupation...
...The chiefs of staff of the various Red armies were drawn from the staffs and military specialists of the old regime, and they were all men superior to those in the employ of the WbiteB...
...The first commander-in-chief of the Red Army was the Czarist officer Muraviov...
...His thesis was -very simple: it is n*c**J2 to destroy, regardless of guilt, those 1PB9 opponents who, under existing ciiCttTast*'**' might gain power, or who might M*k **Js . power...
...Many rabbis are reported to have been deported to Stt>eria from Russian-occupied Poland, and assistance in obtaining employment is said to be refused to any who do not join the atheist organization...
...The Warschaueir Zeitung declared: "In order that Cracow should externally have that standing which is due to it as the capital of the Governor-General's territory, the decision was taken U> transfer the Jews of Cracow to other parts of occupied territory...
...During the civil war the wajrld heard much of Trotsky, Budyenny and Voroihiloy...
...These rules requirea that Ith3Yi,' that he had a "powerful" party in the USSR, be guided solely by their own ''revolutiona I predicting a "new" revolution and seizure conscience" in passing judgment upon defend . power by his followers...
...Magazines and newspapers competed eagerly for Trotsky's articles.' Gradually, however, the fashion of admiring and printing Trotsky began to abate...
...stomach the treatment accorded to a political the, opposinon of the general population, amo~ exile by the arch-gangster of Bolshevism, Joseph whieb all "potential" opponents were :eith!.'r Stalin...
...This was written before the abdication of King Carol and the resultant anti-Semitic riots in Romania.—Editor's Note.] Not one of these can hope for a decent life, except in flight or in the victory of democracy over totalitarian enslavement...
...But he was less successful in his role as the Napoleon of Bolshevism than as its Robespierre or Marat...
...Later, the Bolshevik upstarts simply appropriated to their credit what had been accomplished by Trotsky's "specialists...
...Trotsky succeeded also in recruiting many outstanding professors from the did military and naval academies...
...It was he, also, who appointeda ' Trotsky raised a terrific row in the press abroad, l:Jl,rieh president of the tribunal...
...This waS entirely logical...
...He took special pleasure in 'Bn*fjjJ formulas justifying "the shortening of tk»<"P" man body by a head...
...We did not have any large or threatening groups of political extremists...
...No Jew can now own land, thus all are segregated into city ghettoes...
...began...
...As merchants, they are banned from the villages...
...Priceless books have been burned or simply thrown away...
...or lack of evidence did not matter nnds».*W sky's theory...
...Benes: "The Jewish question has been misused in Czechoslovakia by the Nazi intruders in order to bring about a mass Germanization of Czech industrial life...
...They are severely punished if they refuse to reveal what their parents say at home about the Nazis...
...1As*-soon as the last Jew is driven out of Germany, the rest of Europe, which is awaiting -a German peace, may know this peace must be one w-ithout Jews...
...Trotsky himself declared that(ihe Red Army was "like a radish, red outside §nd white inside...
...T'HOSE were the consequences of Nazi rule...
...The nation was free...
...During the last period, his "literary" opportunities experienced another temporary boom in'the United States in connection with Stalin's bloody extermination of the Bolshevik Old Guard and the G. P. U.'s hunt for Trotsky himself...
...Warning that antwewish measures "in other European countries were too mild, this newspaper announced that one of the most important clauses of a "German peace?* would involve banishing all European Jews to some remote corner of theglb.be...
...I cannot give more than a general pistts* of the great catastrophe which has befallen eat people...
...With the exception of Generals Alexeyev, Denikin, Yudenitch, Kornilov and Kaledin, the Whites did not have men equal to the Czarist officers impressed by Trotsky into the service of the Soviet regime...
...His greatest achievement in this respect was the enlistment of General Brussilov and several other outstanding military leaders during the SovietPolish war...
...The Petain puppet regime has seized the property of those fortunate enough to be out of the country when the arrest...
...Eduard Benes, in a recent pamphlet published in London -under the title, "Nazi Barbarism in Czechoslovakia," describes the anti-Jewish acts of the German invaders...
...and , other groups who had participated in t~ The aura of martyrdom he obtained as Oetober coup d'etat but who subsequently di.' consequence of the Moscow trials was due to &greed With Lenin and Trotl!lky, were subjeeteiII the protests against the frame-ups raised everyto "liqwdation...
...Stalin wanted him out of the way—abroad—in order to execute the Leninist Old Guard on charges of being associated with Trotsky in alleged conspiratory activity...
...After Lenin's . death , carrie where by the decent portion of mankind, by the struggle for power within the BoUhevik Socialists and liberals who, while conscious of Party itself...
...Many of our advanced public and high schools and colleges are closed today...
...Jews are excluded from any profession entailing direct relations with government authorities, including the civil service, teaching medicine, the law, and such government monopolies as the tobacco and liquor trades...
...Prague's Culture Vanishes as Nazis Turn Czechs Into Peons By Eduard Benes Eduard Benes, chief of the Czecho-Slorakian Government in Exile, which was' recognized by England a few months ago as the only legal government of Czechoslovakia., wrote this article on the anni¦ versary of the first year of the war...
...He did this with greater sophistry, greater passion and greater "Bolshevik logic" than Zip*viev and Djerszinsky...
...They will auufjE Hitler too...
...With his death "Trotskyism" ceases to exist...
...Nazi theories of course are glorified therein...
...One of our outstanding historians is working as a minor official in a statistical office...
...Anti-Nazi foreigners who had become French citizens by volunteering to service in the French Army at the outbreak of the war have been repaid by widing of tEeir citizenship...
...ceed...
...Germany will solve her own Jewish question," said the Schwarze Korps...
...I, : • * * ' ' * POLAND under the Nazis has suffered perhaps worst of all...
...But the task of reconstruction wll be enormous...
...exterminated" or "isolated...
...Typical of the treatment accorded Jews, in Poland was the announcement a fortnight ago that 65,000 Jews we're ordered to leave Cracow, capital of the Governor-General in Poland...
...They are inevitable wherever the Hitler despotism gains power...
...the intellectual and cultural forces of the - Czecho-Slovakian people.' ' :- .. I eYNLY two years ago the Czechs were a floiiring, healthy, and prosperous people...
...Children are admonished to report the private lives of their parents to the Gestapo...
...The political system changed into tyrannic foreign rule...
...We must save Europe, nay, the whole of 'Western civilization, front this gigantic outbreak of barbarism...
...All Czech universities and technical colleees have been ordered closed far,, three years, which means "for the duration...
...Reports from men and "women who have succeeded in escaping from Poland since last September tell a constant story 4 of famine and fear, heightened by Storm-Troop brutality...
...We nrost^crnsh the Nazi m^Usi by ardent struggles...
...The machine stripped him of all credit and services, mocked and humiliated him, and finally killed him* * * It was by the caprice of Stalin (a caprice well calculated) that Trotsky was not killed but exiled in 1929...
...German sources gleefully report anti-Jewish riots in southern France, In occupied Paris, Nazis have raided Jewish homes, looted offices of Jtwilkowned firms, and ransacked headquarters of Jewish organizations...
...His composed of Bolaheviks did not matter.' F~r "exposes" of Stalin and his propaganda in the "real" Bolsheviks, according to the theOry ~f world press hurt Stalin considerably among Lenin and Trotsky, were Drily those who wer e foreign Communists and "liberal" fellow traventitled to sit in the Polithureau gr the Cent$ l elers, particularly in the United States and Committee of the Party...
...But no less was his service in the organization and "ideological" justification of the Bolshevist terror—of terror not merely as a defense against "counter-revolution" but as an instrument of "social revolution...
...Of the various Mgh officials to be tried, reports indicate that Leon Blum and Georges Mandel sad Leon Ozay, all Jews, will be singled out for special attack...
...It has cracked down mercilessly upon Polish Jews caught by last fall's lightning war in the East: It has forced the Petain puppet regime into a hypoCritical attempt to fasten guilt for France's defeat upon French Jews...
...The degree of guilt of the F*jjJ2[ prisoners of the Tcheka was not ka»**J2 Nor was it important to inquire as to the to which they had actually put into effect^g alleged plans for seizure of power...
...This was also the final reward received by Trotsky...
...Barbarous race hatred, animosity against' England, America, and all remaining democracies is being taught to our children under threat of force...
...Our economic life was in good shape...
...He showed considerable skill in enlisting into the • service of Bolshevism a great numberg of Czarist generals and officers, many of them able strategists...
...But the Nazis in their fury of oppression and in their systematic destruction are now working feverishly to make impossible every type of Czech intellectual activity...
...Bundistg are said to have been deported bj the hundreds to Asiatic Russia...
...The whole country suddenly became a political desert, a huge concentration camp...
...It has king since ordered Mussolini to inflict the "race theory" upon an unwilling Italian-people, and it has caused both Romania and Hungary to introduce drastic anti-Jewish legislation...
...TJie Republic was a happy nation boasting a wellbalanced social order...
...Our textbooks haye been changed completely...
...He was always striking historical poses and gazing into history's mirror...
...They have been transfortned into Nazi barracks and stables...
...For centuries Czech culture bad flourished in science, literature and art...
...Soviet Russia, in its panicky campaign of land-grabbing, now has increased its Jewish population to nearly five millions...
...Since 1938 they have tried to repeat this...
...Only the "German universities" in Prague and in Brno and two German language technical colleges are continuing their courses...
...Only Trotsky, supported by Lenin, could have performed such a feat...
...They have been totally "nazified," of course...
...It is a silent resistance...
...struggle Tro~kt was in the minority...
...Ii.lUC~spired the con duet of Vishint bedess Communists in the USSR whom he sky ftI 'siIttD·~irttaeattilg ft'am~ups · apjn~ , found in*venitlllt and whom he denounced as Tro~ky and the Leninist Old Guard...
...Trotsky: which brought him ,notoriety...
...Those who called themselves "Trotskyists" consisted in the main of small groups of young people disillusioned with Stalinism...
...For about four hundred years during several periods of national humiliation, the Czechs always found an escape from their political sor' rows in science, literature, and art...
...First of all, we must be victorious in ear present fight...
...Most of our people do not understand German...
...i**»hile awaiting this "solution of the Jewish question," the Hitler regime continues its suffocation of Jews still remaining within the confines of the old Reich...
...Jews under control of the Moscow branch of the Nazi-Communist axis haw also suffered...
...The secure economic order gave way to hunger, scarcity, and misery...
...Many journalists and political leaders, including a number of Jews, have been imprisoned...
...As workers, they are barred from the newly-formed "lafoor guilds," whkh means that many will now become jobless...
...That is why we fight...
...Destruction, impoverishment, decay, cultural collapse, and slavery under a "NaziAryan" master would be the consequences...
...Hungary, satellite of the swastika, has a Jewish population of 655,000, while beleaguered Romania is {he "home of about half a million "second-class citizens...
...SWin developed Trotsky's theory after L~ The world witnessed on a "planetary" .scale nin's ~ death by applying it to the Bo1shevi~ the spectacle of mutual extermination in which tbemselvl...
...Rise and Fall of Leon Trotsky By Vladimir Lebedev TROTSKY performed great services to Bolshevism...
...A commentatory on the classical sentence is lot necessary...
...For the Czechs," as the Nazi governor put it, "low grade public schools are good enough...
...France, traditional stronghold of liberty and equality, is now governed by a puppet regime subservient to Berlin...
...Karl University, founded in 1348, the first scientific institute in central Europe, has now become a barracks for the S. S...
...I iled abroad by Stalin...
...He disapproved of Bolshevist distrust of trained army officers, stressing ,the need of utilizing the old officers as "specialists" in the- organization of the Soviet armed forces...
...The men who defeated Kolchak, Denfkin and Wrangel were officers of the Czarist army and general staff impressed by Trotsky into the Soviet service...
...already arrests and deportations of orthodox leaders And rabbis, Jewish Socialists and labor leaders, Zionists, and business men have become common occurrences...
...The "Trotskyist" cadres, permeated by pseudo-revolutionary tendencies, were founded on faith in Trotsky himself and in the ultimate victory of his ideas in Russia...
...When after March 15 the...
...dirt, of the entire Stalinist swamp...
...Cracow Jews have until August 15 to select another place where they would like to settle down...
...Nazi Germany now has six times as many Jews under its direct control as it had when Hitler seized power in 1933...
...a few.illustra.t.i · ons...
...Bucharest has followed suit by sweeping decrees annuling marriages between Jews and Christians (thereby creating thousands of "illegitimate" children), and forbidding future mixed marriages...
...Meantime, the trial at Riom is revealing itself as an attempt to smear political leaders who had defied Hitler, to vindicate the French appeajen, w to place the blame for defeat on the Jewish scapegoat...
...Nt one knows how many Jews have been arrested...
...In 1938 the Czechs were unfortunately not allowed to take up arms against that antihuman threat...
...r Not long ago, with the outbreak of the war, , The indiscriminate shooting of hostages idur ~ he declared in his "Bulletin of the Opposition" ing the civil , war was Trotsky's "conception.'r, that the war would end with the victory 'He tells proudly in his autobiography that "itl "true" Leninism throughout the world, citing, was he 'who gave Lenin the idea of holdi...
...IN the country most recently conquered by Hitler, an anti-Jewish campaign is * proceeding apace...
...t,' pointing to these executions, could declare that -:f Stalin feared him as the "true" Leninist...
...This changed abruptly after the Munich catastrophe, that September 29, 1938...
...ants, and not by the evidence...
...The German radio announces that "drastic measures are to be taken above all against persons of the Jewish race who engaged in activities detrimental to French national interests...
...They therefore must b«V%Jh the interpreter for all official business ratkfcfr own city halls...
...Recently a new Nazi decree was issued, compelling Jews in Warsaw to live within actual ghetto walls...
...tj in Mexico, where the Communists had hoped The minority, if necessary, could be declati!d to gain power and where the Mexican liberals ''traitors.'' At the beginning of the intra-patiy granted him refuge...
...A BOUT twenty thousand Czech students have **been thrown out of the colleges...
...Ten preparatory schools and nearly all art institutes have been shut down...
...Today their opposition naturally must be- of quite a different character...
...Alread~,Stalin managed ' to arrange matters so that under Lenin and , Trotsky, supporters of t~ . Trotsky could not reply to him in the same Soviet regilDe, .such as the left SociaL-Revolti- coin as Stalin did to the "Trotskyists," to Trottionists, the Communist Workers' Oppositio" sky's children, to his relatives and friends...
...Trotsky suddenly found himself a .. traitor ." For these reasons Stalin's hunt against TrotThen, th'e majority went over to Stalin~ whl le sky was relentless...
...Twelve of our universities and colleges havt been closed permanently...
...Selfgovernment in local districts as well as in national policies had created a free, prosperous, ¦¦ -" l> • and liberal state in Central Europe, a nation which perhaps enjoyed more freedom at that time than any other continental European community...
...bunal established by Trotsky, Ij,nd to be tr~, Trotsky's fate is only the logical conclusion in...
...His environment was a desert...
...Control is as rigid in Prague today as it is in Berlin...
...An actor by nature, Trotsky loved to play for the benefit of history...
...Ibeir eventual fate in case this victory does not come soon enough has been'sketched.jby the Schwarze Korps, news organ of the Hitler Elite Guard...
...There were about 350,000 Jews in Czechoslovakia, participating, as in England, in cultural and economic life, on an equal footing with the rest of the population...
...If But the technique of surprise, suspense, and terror continues to be the rule ftw-Polish Jews under the Nazi heel...
...Jewish religious institutions and all Zionist and labor organizations have been closed down in the newly-acquired regions...
...For gangsters must of Trotsky's theory, Kamenev, Zin.6vi ~v lihd not be permitted to judge their former colother friends and relatives of Trotsky wer e cc#n- leagues or introduce their gangster methods on pel1ed to appear before the Revolutionary T,ri- foreign territory...
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