CZECH COUNTESS ARRIVES
ASYLUM SOUGHT IN NEW ZEALAND
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 23. When she leit her cabin on the liner Aorangi to-day, a member of the old Czechoslovak aristocracy reached the last stage of a bid for freedom whicn began three years ago. She is the Countess Kinsky who, with her two young daughters, Alix and Paula, has now been reunited with her husband, who arrived in New Zealand two years ago, and who is employed in the Standards Institute, Wellington. Deprived of their status and much of their property, the Kinsky family, whose title is a very old one, ran all manner of -risks to flee from the Communists in Czechoslovakia. So efficient, however, was the underground organisation which helped them to escape that they were able to cross the border into friendly territory”in broad daylight. Awaiting a chance to migrate to New Zealand, the Countess and her daughters found asylum in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Letters filtering thrbugh showed how bad conditions were for her people now, the Countess said. “We had to leave everything behind,’’ she added. “My parents are still there, and they have lost everything. I am glad to come to live in a country which has given my husband freedom.’’
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 2
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CZECH COUNTESS ARRIVES
Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 2
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