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- page three = of rebuttal, but this was weakly presented and left no great ime pression, Nogradi's only good point was, that the Hungarian Amy had from the beginning no reliable Cadre, since all officers in the past where fascists 3 while on the other hand in the Czech and Polish Forces a good percetage of the old cadre could be maintained as being reliable to the new Democracye Many decisions were made, of which we naturally are able to learn only a few, The most important of these is, that while heitherto the Supreme Command for the Burvpeen Forces was in the hand of Marshall Konev - Zhukov remaining at Supreme Headquarters = the new set-up is now a split of the Europes Front. the Northern Sector is under Marshall Rokossowsky, tke Southern Sector under Marshall Konev. The over-all Command is under Marshall Zhukov. Another decision was the establishment, in Konev's Headquarters, of anew co ordinating body of trensportations of every kind to operate both in peace and war, And finally a new body for psycho= logical warfare, especially directed at Europe, would be estab-= lished directly under the Staff of Marshall_ Zhukov, This body would be established in Bast Germany, near ‘erlin, since the best pructtical experiences could now be gathered on the Berlin battlefront, The transport coordinating body is under the Command of Zajteshikov,. The first and foremost duty of this body will be the preparation of the immediate transformation tő the Soviet broad= gauge of two strategically detsive railroad lines t the one from Morawska Ostrava to Lundenburg via Prerov, that is to say from the Czebh—Polish to the Czech-Austrian borders the other from Kosice, via Zilina to join the aforementioned line, The importance of this news should not be underestimated. Besides these important news, there are others which speak of matters less important in the immediate, but longrange iaportance, In the field of education, Minister of Education Nejediy had res cently ordered that the main aims for the beginning of this year e of schooling should be : religious education must be liq uidated as fast as possilke, and children be actively encouraged no longer to attend such education even outside the school ( it is o vioys what " actively entouraged means ) ; the education in Russian must be very much pushed, the relative importance of the Russian knowledge being put at the top of every other subject in the pros | gramme ; finally the great importance of raising in the children | the love for the amy and the admiration for everything military áj end warlike, In the economic and social field the mass-deportation a of roughly 50,000 people is slated for the near future, Main reason ~ is to provide chesp labor force in deficiency areas, : People in Czecho-Slovakia stiili follow with great inte= rest the happenings ma their emigration, and with grave misgivings j pees