FORMER DEPUTY PREMIER FLEES FROM PRAGUE
(Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 29, Dr Peter Zenkl, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, arrived in London from Paris today. He said: “The last six months were worse for me and my wife than my six years in the Buchenwald concentration camp.” Dr Zenkl, who is going to the United States in a fortnight’s time, added- “Since the Communist coup, my life has been in danger all the time.” , „ . Dr Zenkl said he came to Britain to help to free Czechoslovakia from the Communists. lie was in tears with the warm reception other Czech refugees gave, him He disclosed part ol the scheme which led to his escape on August 7. “With my wife and two watchers— I was always watched—l visited my brother’s grave,” he said. “We were all put into a motor-lorry and blindfolded. Less than four hours later we were in the American zone and safe. We could not see who saved us. ’ They would be partisans, of courseA
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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