CHRISTMAS IN PRISON
CZECH SCHOOL PUPILS ANTI-STATE LEAFLETS IN FOOD PARCELS NZPA—Reuter—Copyright PRAGUE, Dec. 22. Fifteen pupils and the head master of a secondary school at Pardubice are spending Christmas in prison awaiting trial on charges of having put antistate leaflets into food parcels they were wrapping for the local co-opera-tive organisation. Thirty-five thousand of the parcels, which were for sale to workers with priorities, were undone and repacked when the leaflets were discovered.. Since the discovery of the leaflets “ reaction ” in Czechoslovak schools and universities has come under official fire.
School children and university students are this year taking their Christmas holidays with the knowledge that their records are being carefully scrutinised, and that their position will be reviewed when they return. The Communist Minister of Educa-* tion. Dr Zdenek Nejedly, denounced Czechoslovak grammar schools as “ nests of reaction.” He said the situation in grammar schools was “ very grim,” because “ reaction had its roots there.” He added: “We have to educate on Marxist principles.” Russian has been made a compulsory language in schools. Portraits of Dr Benes, and the Masaryks have been removed from schoolrooms and replaced by busts of Mr Stalin and President Gottwald.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 7
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CHRISTMAS IN PRISON
Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 7
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