Evening star., 1941-09-30
Czecho-SIovakia's
Rebirth Assured
Says Col. Hurban
Minister Claims RevoIts
Are Signs That HitIer's
New Order Is Dead
By BLAIR BOLLES,

DoLLESs
Today is Munich day, dolorous
anniversary for lovers OF liberty and
for Czechs in particular, but it finds
Vladimir Hurban, the CZecho-Slo-
Vakain Minister here, without bit
terness. He looks confidently into
the future toward a democratic tri-
umph, while the Nazis try to quell
revolt in his country.
with all her victories" Col. Hur-
ban said today, Germany can never
finish the war even by conquests.
The last battle will be won by the
democracies either militarily or by
the collapse Of the totalitarian sys-
tenn Hitler's new order is already
dead"
q The Minister shares his opinion
with a fellow Slovak, Jan Lichner.
who is now in this country after g.
dangerous escape from his native
Land. Here he urges action.
- Hopes U. S. "Will Do Part"
s% The defeat of Hitler shall be
8sachieved and the great Munich mis-
take corrected only by the applica-
sation Of the full strength of democ-
~ acles," Mr.. Lichner said. Then he
added: Including the American
democracy.
I hope that the powerful and
orderly American democracy shall
do its part and shall help to end
this struggle in favor of a world
democracy
Mr.. Lichner now is Minister of
State IN the Czecho- -Slovakian pro-.
visional government in London
headed by Eduard Benes.
When German armies invaded
what was left of Czecho- -Slovakia
on March IS, 1899, and DESTROYED
the republic, Jan Lichner played q
game. He feigned sympathy with
the change.
Compiled Volumes of Data.
For more than year, until Sep
tember, 1910, he participated in the
Slovaklan government and kept VOL
luminous and invaluable notes on
the course Of Notification of his
country. When he though he knew
enough, after the outbreak of the
war that Munich was supposed to
make impossible, he slipped away
from Slovakia and made his way
to London.
The Munich settlement was an
event OF September 80, 1898, when
Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mr.. Cham
berlain and Eduard Daladier signed
the document that gave Czecho-
Slovakian Sudetenland to the Nazis
and inspired extraordinary state
ments of pacific hopes that live on
to mock their makers.
Almost radiant with happiness.
Prime Minister Chamberlain of
Great Britain announced:
1--WE regard the agreement signed
last night and the Anglo-German
naval agreement (of 1886 as SYM
bols of the desires of our two peo-
Sples never to go to war with one
another again"
Probation Soldier.
Col. Hurban, in Washington at the
time, read of those doings and said
nothing. Since the disappearance of
his country March IS, 1899, he has
been the diplomatic spokesman here
for an idea, Czecho- -Slovakia, which
he is sure will take form once again,
as he was the soldier for that idea
before it first took form. He was
colonel in the Czech legions that
fought across Siberia before Czecho-
Slovakia was born.
During the last two years, Col.
Hurban said, "the Czechs and the
Slovaks have been subjected to the
most inhuman treatment that has
ever been recorded in the history of
civilized nations" But the Czechs
are restive under miStreatment.
Nothing that has taken place since
Munich has so filled Col Hurban
with pride as the protest by Baron
Won Neurath, the German 'protec-
tor" Of the Czech provinces of Bo-
hemia and Moravia, that he was
profoundly dissatisfied with the
Czechs.
In view of the current restlessness
among the Czechs and other con-
quered peoples of Europe, asked
Minister Hurban whether the revolts
indicated to him that Germany
could never impose its "new order"
on It's neighbors He replied:
They certainly do. Hitlers new |
order is already dead"
Taking a long look at the future, !
asked him:
as there any way in which the
makers of peace after this war !
could insure lasting political stabil-
itv for E,Ironeoo ue reY,Iiod.
eyes, there is. Bar selishness and |
educate people to comprehend world |
citizenship"