CZECHS WARNED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 9

CZECHS WARNED

NAZI METHODS

APPEAL BY DR. BENES

JUSTICE SOUGHT

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 3.

Tonight, twenty-four hours after the-Czecho-Slovak committee in Paris had ordered general mobilisation of all the Czecho-Slovak citizens. abroad, Dr. Benes, head of the committee, broadcast from London a warning to his countrymen in the protectorate to remain calm and not fall into the traps set by the Cestapo. **Do not allow yourselves to be i provoked," Dr. Benes said. - "All the Nazis do is of a .temporary character, like April weather. Not a stone will remain where they have put it. Wo do not want revenge. We only want justice. and full reparation of all they have done to us, to our men, our property, and our cultural life." A further authoritative denial of German insinuations that prominent Czecho-Slovaks outside their own country^ have been inciting the Czech people to revolt against- their Nazi oppressors was given in a recent letter, to "The Times" from the son of a famous former President and himself the late Czecho-Slovak Minister in. London, M. Jan Masaryk. *. "We are pleading daily with the people at home to bide their time and avoid by all means unnecessary blood- . shed," he said. "It is^ established beyond dispute that the Protector and his • henchmen do everything in their power to exhaust.and undermine the magnificent patience and discipline of my people." He attributed the recent revolts in Bohemia and Moravia entirely to ft spontaneous" rising against the indescribable cruelty and oppression of the German authorities.