WAS IN PRAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 11

WAS IN PRAGUE

THE DAYS OF CRISIS

DUNEDIN MAN'S RETURN

(By Telegraph—-Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day

With the exception of the British guards the Czech soldiers were the finest he saw during a ten months' tour of England and Europe, said Mr. J. Green, of Dunedin, who returned by the Mariposa.

I "In Prague the day before the crisis." he said, 'it was like a mill stream, quiet on top but with forces of amazing strength running like an electric current beneath the surface. The townspeople were firmly convinced that there would be no war. There was no trace of spitefylness towards Britain and no scenes of violence in the capital." Mr. Green said that many of tne people had a feeling of despair and hopelessness. They felt that their country was slipping away from them. In the mass they were just like a crowd of English people. Both the Czechs and Germans were emphatic that they had no wish to fight Britain. .*•_.•+ There was bitter feeling against fctitler in Hungary, the people realising that Hungary would be the next country absorbed by the Reich.