TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 88, 7 November 1939, Page 5

TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

■ .*. .— _ DESIRE OF AUSTRIANS IN ENGLAND A LEGION BEING ENROLLED (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, September 30. The eldest son of Professor Sigmund Frued, the world-famous psychologist wlio died recently in London, wants to fight for Britain. In a house in Bayswater, London, in a room furnished only with a large-scale map of dead Austria, a group of Austrians pledged to resurrect their country from the annihilation she has suffered at the hands of Hitler meets regularly under his leadership. They are enrolling picked men to form an Austrian Legion. "There are some thousands of us Austrians in Britain, all refugees," said Mr Frued. "I served for four i years in the Great War, first as a volunteer, later as a commissioned 1 officer, and many of us have fought i against Britons in the past. This [ time we want to fight with them. We | are not willing to see you go and » fight against our destroyer and stay , here eating your food, protected bj ' your arms and snatch what we car ) get. in the way of jobs, careers 01 3 J money. We wish to fight not only foi * ! the freedom of Austria but the freely dom of the world. Only when Gerk many—Nazi Germany—is . broker r can we Austrians build a new AusSjtria."