Arizona republican., 1919-05-10
PHOENIX IS PROUD OF HER SERVICE BOYS

and his daughter Alice had been q | student of unusual distinction at the University of Chicago. The United l States interFened to procure his re- lease, as 1t did later to prevent the military execution of his daughter. !. against whom the only real charge was that of being her fathers child.
 For Justice to the Oppressed
 Permitted to go into exile in Italy, , he escaped to England and devoted himself to the organization of Czech Slovaks and allied Slavic victims of German, Magyar and Germanized Rus sian official oppression throughout the world. The collapse of imperial Russia and the German corruption of bolshe- vik Russia gave him an opportunity to direct war against the Hun with swords as well as with words.
 Meanwhile he had been Iaboring to impress upon the leading minds of all the allied free nations that only through assurance of justice and free dom to all the subject races of eastern Europe could the menace of the Inn be certainly and forever ended. For the Hun had not shown-and has Tot yet shown-the slightest sign of re- pentance for his crimes.
 "The way to make sure of perpetual safety of civilization from the Hun" ran the burden of Masaryk's argument. is to put round the Hun a Slavic ring of steel" The resolution of the Czech SloYak soldiers forced into Austria's $ armies not to fight for Hun world rule provided the opportunity for Masaryk to back his words with his peoples deeds. When the Czech soldiers re- fused to march they were shot as mutineers. So they marched. and at every chance deserted over into the Russian lines, sometimes by whole regi- ments.
 How they fought for Russia. while Russia stood up against the Hun: how they rejected the boIshevik poison made in Germany and endeavored to escape from Russia to France. there to fight the Hun again; how. harried ! by the purchased servants of the Hun, they turned and became a dam against the flood Of bolshevik lunacy-that marvellous chapter of the wars history can be only outlined as yet for lack Gl full knowledge. But it is a story which, if it but find among the men who lived through it a competent teller will rival Aenophon's tale of the march of the | Ten Thousand Greeks into the heart of 1 Persia and out again. Had those 10000 | Greeks stayed in Persia and become a wall 10 it's people against anarchy i their chievement would have been like l that of the Czech Slovaks in Siberia. Made Masaryk Their Commander 1 Czech -Slovak soldiers had recog- ! nized Masaryk, as head Of their na- 1 tional council formed by their race l eNiled leaders, as their commander in | chief He had ordered them to leave l Russia. The greatness Of the man was
 shown by the swiftness with which he l changed his orders when it became
 clear that these troops could do faI
 more important service by staying in l Russia than by coming out.
 The result was the recognition by the
 allies of the eXiled Czech Slovak cOun-
 cil as a real government It was with out q country in possession and for, resses, but it had what was far morf l important. 1t could echo the proud i boast of the old Greek poet:
 'The walls of Athens are impregnable: Our city's bulwarlled by heroic sons.' ! Moreover, when the moment came il found the Czech Slova5s in their home
 land, guided by the spirit and teaching.
 Of Masaryk, ready to act with complet,
 efficiency The finishing stroke to thu
 reeling Hapsburg empire was given },
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