Willkie Urges Vengeance for Razed Lidice Speaks at Spot Named in Memory of Town Destroyed by Hitler Lidice. 111., July 12 UP) Wendell Willkie called upon the freedom- loving peoples of the world today to remember Nazi-razed Lidice and banish "the madness of tyrants" rrom the earth. He spoke at ceremonies during wnicn ims community or iuo new homes in the hills north of Jollet was given the name Lidice in memory of the martyrs of Lidice. Czechoslovakia, a village destroyed by the Germans in reprisal for the slaying of Hitler's hangman, Reln- nard jueyoricn. Willkie's speech was the highlight of ceremonies attended by several thousand persons. A mes sage from President Roosevelt as sertlng the rebirth of Lidice was "an everlasting reminder that Nazi force could not destroy either the love of human freedom or the courage to maintain it," was read. Willkie said the Nazis had shot 500,000 persons in Europe 25,000 or rnem in mass massacres and that Poland, Norway. Belelum and Yugoslavia had their "Lidices" but that the destruction of the Czech hamlet stood as a "symbol of all" "While such deeds as Lidice are done in another country, we can not rest unui we are sure that they will never be -done in our own," he stated in a' prepared address. "Let us highly resolve that the memory of (his little village of Bohemia, now resurrected by the peopie oi a uwie viuage in Illinois, will fire us, now and until the battle is over, with the Iron resolution that the madness of tyrants must perish from the earth ." Asserting destruction of tvrannv was necessary "that the earth may return to the people to whom it belongs, and be their village, their home, forever," he added: "But their great objective cannot be accomplished unless every clti- (See UDICS BAUD as Tf 1)
