Evening star., 1950-01-19
|2Czech Attaches Qui'
Consulate and Appea
For Haven in u. ).
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Two at
taches of the Czech consulate re-
signed yesterday in protest
against Communist domination OF
their country's government.
Both appealed to Secretary OF
State Acheson for permission to
remain in this country.
They are Wladislav j. Matejcek,
40. acting deputy consul in New
York, and Arnosvv Fried. 53-year-
old chief accountant of the con-
sulate.
Their action followed the re-
signation Of DR.. .'leksander Rud-
zinski, 40, from the Polish delega-
ton to the United Nations, re-
portedly in protest against being
forced to walk out of a U. N.
committee last Monday in Rus
sia's action against the Chinese
Nationalists.
Saw Handwriting on Wall"
Mr.. Matejcek, for many years
associated with the economic sec
tion of the Czech Ministry of For
eign Affairs, said he made his
decision because he saw the
Handwriting on the wall" for
nom Communist Czech officials.
"All over the world" he de-
clared, "non-party members are
being recalled and replaced by
party members" Those recalled,
he added. "are never heard of
again-politically.
"You are never told when to go.
You are simply ordered to pack
up. and the next thing you know
you are at an airport, or railrt ad
station or boat"
Hoped for Change.
Mr.. Fried. who said he was a
$7.000-a-year chief accountant at
the consulate. said he put off the
step until the last moment, hop
ing for a change in the Com
munist Czechosloyak government.
He was due to 60 home tomor-
row on the Polish liner Batory
on a routine transfer.
The Czech consulate said late
yesterday it had not yet received
Mr.. Fried's letter of resignation
In letter to Mr.. Acheson, Mr..
Fried said II fully disapprove of
the Communist theology to which
the Czech people were subjected
in February, 1948."
Foreign Service Career Man.
He said he had never been
associated with the Communist
movement but had served as
career man in the foreign service
from the earliest days of the
Czech republic in 1919.
Mr.. Fried asked American
asylum for himself. his wife and
his 7-year -old daughter.
DR.. Rudzinski was reported in
seclusion, but a source familiar
with his views said he has been
thinking of a break since the Rus
slams began putting more pressure
on Poland after the Stalin- Tito
split in 1948.
He wrote Mr.. Acheson that
freedom has disappeared" in Po-
land as result of Russian ac-
tions.
During the last months" DR..
Rudzinski wrote Mr.. Acheson, Gin
ternal life in Poland is undergo
ing rapid and profound trans
formation.
Says Freedom Is Gone.
"The imposing of Soviet Marshal
Rokossovsky (sent by Moscow to
be Polish Minister of Defense,
was only one of a long and sys-
tematic change of less striking and
less known facts. AS a result, free
dom has disappeared in Poland.
That makes impossible my
further work with the Polish dele
cation to the United Nations and
with the consulate-general of Po-
land in New York. During all my
work with the United Nations since
March, 1946. I tried stubbornly
and consistently to save at least
some area of independence and
initiative for the Polish delegation
in relation to the Soviet delega-
ton. That was a hard and losing
fight finally becoming entirely
hopeless.
II cannot associate myself with
walkouts calculated to paralyze
and disrupt the United Nations"