CZECH AIRMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 216, 10 August 1940, Page 7

CZECH AIRMEN.

SYMBOL OF RENAISSANCE. (British Official Wireless.) Received August 10, 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 9. Speaking to Czechoslovak airmen when he visited an R.A.F. technma training station, the President ot Czechoslovakia (Dr. E. Benes) staled that the recognition of his country’s Government by Britain was the “first hopeful turning-point of the Czechoslovakian Republic since Munich.” These airmen, Dr. Benes said, uero the first, ot tho Czechoslovak forces to take part in operations against the enemy, and he thanked them on behalf of his nation for their light for liberty. Stating that his country had started to rise again, Dr. Benes saiu : “I have complete confidence that the republic will lie restored . as a strong, Lee, democratic, happy State—even better than before. We have intentionally linked our destiny and our struggle with the struggle of the great European democracy represented, by the United Kingdom and the British Empire.” . Dr. Benes concluded by referring to the possibility of these Czechoslovak airmen might, in the course of their duties, visit their Motherland and flyover its capital as “messengers of our future victory.”