European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The German occupation didst do a thing to break the nationalist spirit of the czechs in it made it stronger than by Allan Ecker yank staff correspondent Mandlove was the czech she was stacked like poker chips and had a face to some people even thought she could the czech movie audiences liked naturally she liked the her pictures made a pile of dough for Barranov productions and for but Mandlove wont be making movies any Shes working on a Road when the germans came to Czechoslovakia six years Mandlove discovered it want smart to like the czechs any it was easier More like the ration tickets for Good czechs didst go very even if you were trying to keep your Waistline there we rent any silk Stock Ings or fur Coats for Good Mand Lova decided she would rather give up being a Good czech than give up wearing a fur so she took the coat and the German sugar daddy who went along with that Why Shes on the Road with the rest of the czech Mandlove is learning that the War changed the minds of a lot of her six years of getting stepped on by the germans have made the intense nationalists More nationalistic than they Are purging their country of germanium and the and anybody who played around with the Ger like goes right along with them Czechoslovakia is an old country but a new for hundreds of years the czechs were bossed by German when the Republic was founded in its first president and moving spirit was Thomas Wise old who had lived in the states and was a Friend of president Woodrow it was his the czech new Deal idea that like the could be a melting pot of different the largest minority of every 13 citizens of the there were German Heaters and just As there were czech and the germans had equal rights As but the melting pot didst the Czecho slovak germans never dissolved into Czecho slovaks they kept on thinking of themselves As and in 1938 and they banded into a fifth column in hitlers Campaign to de stroy the czech now the czechs Are building a new this time the mixture will not be the same As germans will not be allowed in the melting you can see the signs of the change every where in stroll Down the vac Laviske the main or pay one Krone a Penny to ride around town in a double there Arent any cars or taxis to speak of be cause there int any its the Little things that hit you store signs display fresh Coats of the Butcher or Baker or Knickknacks maker puts up the czech word to describe his and changes the spelling of his name Back to the Good old czech at Wilson named for Masaryk s the Wilson pros been freshly painted in and the word frag German spelling for the czech has been blotted All the Railroad cars waiting on the tracks have fresh czech markings instead of the German if you ask for directions in German in cast you dont speak youll get nothing but a fishy the ticket taker at the Vltava River pier Waves you aboard the excursion boat rather than discuss in German the Price of a its not that the czechs dont German has been practically a Sec Ond language with them for but there sick and tired of hearing it a czech who was forced to work for the germans in a Prague factory until he was imprisoned for sabotage puts it this Way please do not speak German that is the language of the theres Only one curious exception to this violent soldiers of the new czech army their uniforms with More than the traditional awkwardness of the but its easy to see there dressed in is and a just slightly because of the shortage of Only stocks from captured German warehouses Are available but these czech to 40 years receive training and equip ment similar to the red army before As part of the Russ czech military if the uniforms seem the new army is anything but its Mam at least for the is coming from the patriots who escaped from occupied Czecho Slovakia to join and fight in the czech brigades of the British and russian you see these veterans now on the streets of Prague in their British Battle officers of the old Reg ular army who stayed in Czechoslovakia can retain their but Only if they satisfy courts of inquiry that they didst Collar out they Well known collaborators and War criminals Are lodged in Pankrac formerly a Ges Tapo awaiting trial by Peoples cases Are being prepared right now As fast As All the witnesses still alive can be rounded the 1 Emil 73yearold puppet president of the German protectorate and the Vidkun Quisling of has already cheated the Gallows by dying in the Goebbels of the Emanuel who made weekly Proger Man tried and convicted himself by committing its not just German signs and the German language and friends of the germans that the czechs Are getting rid there throwing out the germans the germans from Germany who came along with the occupation and the czechoslovak germans who betrayed their about presi Dent Eduard Benes has been very Clear no matter How Long he lived every German who cannot prove he was an Active Friend of before and after must go to get an idea of what this visit Masaryk where the Sokol societies used to hold their track and Field meets before the soon there will be new Sokol but at the moment the stadium has other its a vast Camp for germans awaiting shipment out of already have been proc German families Are living in the grand and German kids make mud pies Down on the playing on the spot where pole vaulters once a flabby old German woman squats naked in a taking a Bath there Are Many but not Many signs of Page 16