CZECH HOCKEY TEAM PURGED
THREE MEN EXCLUDED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS PRAGUE. October 16. Czechoslovakia to-day purged its world champion hockey team of three men who made up the greatest attacking forward line in amateur says the Associated Press. The three, Vladimir Zabrodsky, Stanislav Knonpasek. and Vaclav Rozinak, were dismissed because they were “politically unreliable.” • The Czech national sports organisation. the Sokol, to-day called on thousands of the nation's girls and boys aged 16 to 20 to become paratroopers. The purpose was given as fulfilment of the slogan by one of the Sokol founders: “A weapon in every fist.” The Sokol has opened a five-month parachuting course.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25937, 18 October 1949, Page 5
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