The Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-02-18, Page 10.CZECH
o By G. MacLEOD
AIof 13011.:Mia, 'was a most Ibea�ut
ful old kitty, dating from tl.h
t 13th century. Divided by Ith.
ahMoldatt river,� ci, about s
wide
the •Thr;mes air Westminstter,
n is icr• ezed by 14 bridges o
e whic1 'The 14th century C1 art
bri.ckge, , with its nuvmerou
arca e:>, is the .finestr• leading .a
d
it.does to the 9th .century royal
palace H;padeant' castle.. .
This stands-Turrett�edeastell
toted like a mellow eheese'high
above the s 000tth flowing war=
ens of the :Molclau and -is ba* -
ed
ed by the'.cathedral of St. Viten
which .contains the tomb of
King Wenceslaus 1. There .is
the University too, but all the.se
apart there 'were three features
which 'kindled the imagination.'
two of them redolent of •Czech
culture and11Czech resobution.
The first was the grave of,
the Unknown Soldier, housed
in a circular, vaulted, 'high win-
dowed chapel; dimly lit; •with
ethereal soft rnusic pbayi•ng
somewhere, you could not elu•ci-
date from where and the grave
itself cove1ed with. the tributes -
of all the Allies. Such ex-
quisite taste, such atmosphere
eo•uld only spring from ageless
breeding.
The second was the guard
mounted on the Hradtcany Pal-
ace, composed of men, each
clothed in dile teniform of
of their First Wal- Allies with
whom they ,h a d formed Czecth
Legions—French, Italian, Aus-
trian and American. The 'third
feature was a phenomenon
which stamped -the ;country as
a prolific inventory of mechan-
isms, for it seemed as though
down any street you could find
a different automatic rifle.
Here we had demonstrators
ever in our path Whereas do
England you would not find a
single one.
One olf the bate,.t -and mos
c
al,, na,m,.�c members .atf the $riti,�
h tbor •Phrty �gov rnanent is ab-
e.t t . Vl xwell, 142 '.t". who was }both
'
Jan Ludwig Hoch in a renrot
t"ar�patlrian viliageu, in 193. kris
parents were farm laborers
who, with seven 'children live
une..r111... -tip-,sz?rly-'has •his
career been 'meteoric, it has
ee•n kaleidoscopic.
ile left. school at 11 and in
1939, at 10, joined the "Czech
°rnclergr`crund. tliy 1340 he was
un . the Czech „army in France
!rem 'whence he 'escaped in a
:mall boat to ,be landed at Liver-
pool. With 500 'counpatriotcs-lie
joined the British Ar4ny; by
1945 he held a cOI mistsion;
had • won. the Military Cross;
wa-: -a member of the British a,d-
vance .party ..which took oyer
j •`he British sector of Berlin
,,"r.om 'he Russians; interrogated
cif Hitler's adjutants
nd on de•rnobilization 'was na-
• eIral!zed, joined the British
1'rrei�;n Office incl. at 23 con-
troli.•d the new German lantg-
.,.1^e newspapers as a British
1'r 9 Ot1iur until 1947 when he
left.
Sin' 11-1-11 h' `::rs organized
the I er eimon Pre the shares
of ,which were publicly offered
at eight tunes., the... par value
;.and 'were oversuub,.•x,:ibeti 19
timi>. Speaking nine langu-
ages,ahe r.'tbli Vies translations
of .'c entific Tese"r•ch pipers
with author, on 'both sides of -I
'he Iron Curtain. He even fin-
anced the film of the Bolshoi
Ballet.
Today a triple-, sterling mil-
Bonaire, his ercate.st' ambition
is "to halt the retreat of our
country." An amazing story?
!4 - .peasant, schooled -for only
:'our years; a soldier; in,terpre-
ter;- an unortho•do p ,blisher;
an' illiontaire at 42; a C'zeett o-
lovakian became an 1M.P..
i- staff on any .an every aspelet.
e of the minutest details of his
e weapoans-„, . tld their ammunition
1 �
s 01 whic.l>; there . were several
it types; az-naour'pierc�ing, soft, ex -
f Rioscve tracer, shrapnel.
es But np one ever defeated Stal-
s ler 'in a technical - argument.
s Adddd to this 'Was his absolute
technical :'honesty. I1 Stall
- trate `2 inclYes elf. plate at' 50
metresi it. old; So. No more
no, less. @ioverin�g in his viicli.n-
ity were the Holek brothers,
h�ul;e bear -like men, responsible
for the -detailed design of the
funs; ever ready to lexplain
performance, operation or l,iln.it-
-atitins. Arid S;la�b'y, ."who sub-
scribed to thrc "Times" and
react it.. Slatby, who so con-
stantly • imlpreesed 'on -us that
England: 'must prepare, 'must
stand by Czechoslovakia in its
perilous position as the jam
in the sandwi�eh between Russia
and .Germany. S l atby, who
pleaded for our realization that,
the shadows were growing ever
longer.
An amazing breed; margi�cians
when it came to autamatrc'wea-
pons;. ever eager tomodify, to
accommodate, to afford, any ser-
vrce whish would " bind us to
them. In view -Of the immin-
ence of .13439, a veritable writ-
ingon the wall.
Sleight of Mand 1
We .spent one wild and wo•n- I
der•ful evening with them in an I
underground wine cellar into'
which we drove by czar down an
entry ramp lined witty .gargan-
tuan wine vats. which- opened
into a vast, high-ceilinged am-
phitheatre in- the middle- of
which blazed• a huge log fire,
the sole -source of heat and
light.
A gypsy band played passion-
ate =music berddte the flickering
flames, their colorful costumes
picking uip the light as they
danced.. Seated -eat a rough
wood table we-were-served'the'
del�ioacy of the plaice, roast
sucking .�pilg, its hide seared to
a crisp to leave . a lukewarm
Mayer of fat, all to be washed
down with a sour wine. For-
tunately the sleight Of hand' at
disposing" of food and drink
which I had learnt in W'a'iris-
YOUNG BOYCEpHo ro BY PHIL
Rev. Dou las Fry officiated in
Seaforth Presbyterian Church
manse on Saturday, January 30,
when Grana _Catherine Elizabeth.
Boy ce became the bride of
Thomas Benjamin Young. The
bride is • Ole. daughter of ` Mr.
and 1I: s. lorauk a13cr� ce, R.R. 1,
Varna, and the ;;room is the
son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank
Goderich.
The bride chose a pink gown
of ilk organza enhanced at the
back by a flawing train - of
matching material and coimple-
mented at the top by three tulle
••bcwvs. Her circular veil,_of silk
illusion was caught to a pillbox
hcac;iece and she wore a cor-
sa,qe, of pink roses against a'
white background. '
Miss Mary Boyce, R.R. 1
Varna, was brklemaid wearing
a pale brae rit QO lace gown
fashioned with a scooped neck-
'line and a bouffant sly, t ae-
cei'ted at the .waistline by a
ma:;:: n, bow. !ler headpiece
was a miniature blue rose and
w ore a corgi ae of pink
o_ee •
A reception was held at the'
".come of Mr. and Mrs. Merton
'Good, Goderich. '.The bride's
mother received in a ,bate .bra.
'code dress' wiith corsage orf
pink carnations. The -.grooms
mo;:re r wore a green figured
are s - with corsage of bronze
baby mums.
For a wedding trip 'to Niag-
ara Falls, the bride donned a•
three-piece aqua suit of crochet-
knit.
The couple will reside , in
Goderich.
The Wonderful
New World
of...
INTERNATIONAL
OBITUARY
WILLIAM A. BEDOUR
A former resident of the Hol- I This `saga served to •retmind
mesville area, . William A. Be- .'me that my •acquain•tanceship
t deur; 86, died recently at Mount with Czechs began in November
when d went: to Prague
1 Carmel Hospital, Detroit, after 'with a British mission to evalu-
a lengthy illness. He had liveel� ate a .15 nim air-cooled auto -
in Detroit for the latlt 42 years. maria rifle designed and 'menu -
His parents were the late Alec factured by the . Czeehosloven-
a•nd Mary Gravelle Bedour, who sko Zobrowka Brno. {G.Z:B.) At
farmed on the ,Maitland Con- the time the near office was
cession. !dickering for a .792 automatic,
- Surviving are two* daughters: the ZB53, which was eventually
Mrs. Kathleen Ar;butckle, Frank- ; purchased, redesigned ,for .303
ford, Ont.; Mrs. Harry (Ann's- ! amtm,unition, and �re.came known
elle•) McGann; troft;•-•o-n•e-sis=- as-th.e Boren eeurre Br. stands -for
ter, Mrs. Margaret McDonald, Brno in Moravia whence it came
Courtri.ght, Ont.; -ane :bra r and En for Enfield where it
Henry, Ottawa; five grandchild- ; was -finally manufactured to ac-
ren, and seven great -,grand- ; cept Bi iti h an -mo.
children. F.V1r. Brcdour Was pre- ! We reached Praerie•via Pilsen
deceased in'''194Y'by his wife, where it k the custom tasample
the, former Laura McCo.urt. a cold creamy liquid on the
Interment, took place in Holy •station platforms.. In those
Sepulchre cemetery, Detroit. I days, at least, Prague, capital
On To Moravia
But ilt was not until.we reach-
ed Brno, in Moravia and on a
htigb, road. to. Vienna,- that we
came into intimate-ccc itact with
Czechs. First there was Stoller,
an ex -legionary, the technical'.
direotor of C.Z .B., ' a burly man,
of medium height, full7fnced,
with a "command of his subject
which was phenomenal. He
could, and did, argue with his
;batt case 1 1.anNdy4114 rte Ort,
under the fable ttad the feaSt
ihtead' -c
f1-� qil 'w, 5, errenitlally a .
#�tuii e�d - { #emrtot�ut�;; t.�� , :,,;.��.
tan'ks''but we 'left alter and
his men in their-- precarious..
position, juu$f .as we left. the
antiquity of Prague. at'tj e, eros's-
`roads with the premonition', that
itt uiighlt not survdrlre, 'avhile v ,
the sands of•'ti�rne ' t, ost, 'x=
pended desPerately wed to. a--
quire more modem 'Weapons
for the encounter. ' O&1,. the
lotus years, the League of „Na-
tions and our Irnasters prefer.
ring the.�s°hadgw for the "tub-
er stance.
t ller..eant1-:..Co:--v a
0 to i:g.; ;mid ,when five rla�tea
V"�nt effort to TONY
in, ig i, a Vatter 1)Qlw •,
1 "" 't =arlA1 paniK "�‘
lhpy and others, together
w th� came ' ' Thee ' t alb rove -e°,
4 PlitCte.d •out' of Brno . Ib ,fore
the .Gernianscould emasculate
their 'country and as a ..e nenta,.
I hold.* 4,,,Scale ;model of the
Drell gun, one of which every
apprentice had to make before
n 1
Passing out as a .1 journeyman.
Never, never (underestimate a
Czech!
Churehtill, Man., was named
for John Churchill, agavel•npr
olf the Iiixdson',s BaY ..company
in the. ,Marty 1600's and the
ancllIt1iexe n Mme`s reiov:'
ed af; Sir. W. Churc .ii
fir!
-iso.,_.
q'henl'or ` Oi.tizens'lu'b
meta at dXacxaty all on lFebru-
-rime
a yMrd w1i n stor�nny weat�hen
,kept many, aneml(bers from at-
met,.
u inig,
Jarhes Young, the: president,
1
was i�n, the. chair, Following
opening' exercises there was' a
short 'busline session. Twoj
niernlbers were reported ill, and
in besafxaa, . • The president
sbated that' he, 'with members
otf Goderich o,I'u,h had re-
.cen,tly, ibee,n invtiteci, to a aneet-`
ole,
Lug at 13a' ehd by some
to •divtculss ffrnnarfg a
Citizens' klub" there; x;
Was er antd a •club Nvas
ire i ith Mrs. tGeo• tial
,ik
esident" The' meeting
t b
e�th
e '
v�Ia
ge hal
Al the conclusion ,of the
ing, everal card g'a4rnt
enjoyed. ' A'lunch Was `;
by• Mr, and it . -mel.
and, their �caz untttee. and
elal haltf hour en7J�,�y ed;
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