EARLY TRIUMPH
PRAYER OF THE CZECHS. MILITARY AGREEMENT. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. TO a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 25. Monday next will be the 22nd anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence. In an interview, the Czechoslovakian Prime Minister (M. Sramek) said: "To-day our soldiers are fighting with the soldiers of Britain and the Commonwealth'. We know their fighting will not be in vain.
"One day our soldiers will march in triumph through the streets of Prague, and in Czechoslovakia, a country which cannot die, millions will on Monday pray silently that the day of their triumph may come soon." A military agreement defining the principles on which the Czechoslovakian armed' lorce.s will be organised under the supreme command of the Czechoslovakian Commander-in-Chief for co-operation with the Allied armed forces was signed to-day. It affirms the determination of the British Government and the provisional Czechoslovak Government to prosecute the war to a successful conclusion, and provides that in the task of reconstituting the Czechoslovak forces the Provisional Czechoslovak Government will be assisted by the British Government, which has granted to the Czechoslovak Government the necessary credits to finance the cost of maintaining the Czechoslovak military effort.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 281, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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194EARLY TRIUMPH Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 281, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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