NAZI RULERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23521, 5 December 1939, Page 10

NAZI RULERS

CZECHS AS VICTIMS LEADERS URGE CALM OPPRESSION TEMPORARY BEWARE GESTAPO TRAPS By Telegraph—rrcss Association —Copyright (Received December 4, 7.12 p.m.) British "Wireless LONDON. Dec. 3 Twenty-four hours after the Czecho-Slovak Committee in Paris had ordered the general mobilisation of all Czecho-Slovak citizens abroad, Dr. Benes, head of the committee, broadcast from London to-night a warning to his countrymen in the Protectorate to remain calm and not to fall into traps set by the Gestapo. Dr. Benes said: "Do not allow yourselves to bo provoked. All the Nazis do is of a temporary character like April weather.

"Not one stone will remain where they have put it. We do not want revenge; we only want justice and full reparation for all they have dono to us, to our men, to our property and to 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 tho Times from the son of a famous former president, and himself late Czechoslovak Minister in London. He said: "We are pleading daily with the people at homo to bide their time and to avoid by all means unnecessary bloodshed.

"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." The writer attributed tho recent revolts in Bohemia and Moravia entirely to a spontaneous rising against the indescribable cruelty and oppression of the German authorities.