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Tonight, Auto Light presents the true story of an attempt to escape to freedom in which
it has been necessary to change the names of all principal participants in order that
their survivors still imprisoned may live.
Listen, young lovers, our stars, Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner.
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And now, Auto Light presents transcribed, Robert Wagner and Mona Freeman in Listen Young
Lovers, hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
It was in Czechoslovakia a year ago, a high-vaulted room in a prison's turret, the city of Prague.
There was a boy named Jinnrich, and he was 21.
And until this morning, he'd been a student at the Communist-controlled university.
And now he faced his inquisitors.
Go to the window, Jinnrich.
Go on, Jinnrich.
Go to the window.
Now, down there, do you see the automobiles?
The automobiles.
Do you see them?
Jinnrich?
Yes.
Yes, I see them.
And the people?
Yes.
And the building of the Ministry of War?
Yes.
Therefore, they exist because you see them.
You understand, Jinnrich?
Please.
Yes, what is it?
Comrades...
Of course we are all comrades, Jinnrich.
This comrade, for example?
Yes.
You see his medals?
Certainly, because they exist.
And his sword?
Yes.
His head?
Yes.
His mind?
Comrade, his mind?
Or this comrade's mind?
Shall we have you shot, Jinnrich?
Or is expulsion enough?
What do you think, comrades?
Shoot him.
What was the book you were caught with, Jinnrich?
Varieties of Religious Experiences by Henry James.
Western philosophy.
Have him shot.
Shoot him, have him shot, blood and blood and blood.
Jinnrich?
Yes.
To kill you would be to fail.
You are clever.
You think.
Therefore, if you are clever for us, fought for us, we could win.
Therefore, a victory for us, for communism.
So go home.
Go home and purge your mind.
In about a day, I think, come to me and say to me, I am ready.
Teach me to think.
Teach me what you want me to know.
Go home.
And for this they expelled you?
For daring to read?
For daring to think?
For the best, Mulatta.
This that they have done to you?
Yes.
After it will come arrest and torture and imprisonment and the labor camp.
Mulatta.
And death.
As it came to Micolash, who also was a student, who also read of alien philosophy.
Mulatta.
Death.
Stop it.
We speak of it no more, Mulatta.
What time is it?
It is almost the hour of...
Turn on the radio then.
Lower.
Turn it lower.
Lower.
Henrik.
Yes?
Come here to me.
Close to me.
Come sit with me.
And watch the fall of night.
And hold me.
Mulatta.
Gentle Mulatta.
This is the voice of free Czechoslovakia.
And the voice of Radio Free Europe, bringing you the news of the free world.
Bringing you the knowledge that you are not forgotten and the hope of your future liberation.
The voice now of free Czechoslovakia.
This is password Little Garden.
Dear mother, we know these are the worst times you have ever lived through, but you must
believe that one day we will see you again.
This is password Hephaistos, calling my friends from the Krumlov area.
The border crossing was hard and exhausting, but it was a success.
Now I am well and I see true freedom.
Tonight, as we promised, we are going to tell you about the Free Europe College in Strasbourg.
Like Radio Free Europe, the college is maintained by the voluntary contributions of the American
people.
It is for students who have escaped from the Soviet orbit, from Soviet tyranny, from Soviet
terror, for students who have fled across the border and come to Germany, where they
have found a climate of freedom and of learning.
Henrik, why have you turned it off?
Why?
I thought I heard a step on the stairs in the hall.
Yes, I did hear.
Turn on the lights, Melada.
Quickly.
Perhaps it's only the man who lived up...
Steppen.
Comrade Steppen, who was walking the streets in loneliness and in regret, and who thought
to call on a friend, on a comrade.
May I?
Come in.
You know Melada?
Of course.
You brought her once to the university and her sweet young face made such an impression
amongst us.
We talked of it, of you, of your lovely fiancée, Melada.
Why are you here?
I told you.
It was a night of loneliness and of regret.
How harsh we were with him, Melada, with your love.
How almost brutal.
What savage blows we struck against his sensitive brain, and I became concerned for him.
I became...
But your young man, a man of intellect, of perception.
And see him.
See his face.
How he knows I lie.
How he knows I have no concern for him, nor pity, nor rage.
But you, you have such emotions for him, Melada, and love also.
And tell him, convince him, take his hand, and lead him back to us with your young love.
For this, that one day and soon your gentle arms will have to cradle his corpse.
Tomorrow, Yenrik, and we will welcome you back with such warmth, such joy.
Good night, Yenrik, Melada.
Yenrik, Yenrik, beloved.
Yes?
What was said on the radio, the free Europe College in Strasbourg, for those who escape.
I cannot.
You must.
You will.
Hear me.
Not without you.
Then with me.
It's not alone with me.
It is 300 miles, 300 miles of guards and border patrols and informers and dogs, wilderness
and hunger and hiding.
With me, with me, Yenrik.
Yes.
But it must be now, immediately now.
Get your coat, a scarf for your hair, if you have candy bars.
Yes.
Quickly, Melada, quickly.
Yes.
My scarf, my coat, candy bar.
Take it, Yenrik.
What is it?
The same that I have for myself.
A small bottle of liquid, of poison that is kept here for insects and vermin.
Melada.
If we are caught, we will drink it.
Together, we will drink it.
In this way, they will never separate us.
This way, we will never leave each other.
Yes.
A thing they had talked about for a long time, now decided.
But how to get to freedom, no passports, so they dare not trust trains nor other public
conveyances, nothing but their feet to carry them.
Two sweethearts out for a casual stroll.
So they walked, proud to Clavno, across the Tava River, swollen by spring rains, to Kraslyche
and close to the border now.
Lonely path through the mountain roads and across fields, to the young lovers, almost
a pleasant adventure.
Almost.
Run, run.
Quickly, in.
When the rain came, when the lightning struck that tree back there, and the thunder, I
prayed for a shelter for you, and now there is a barn.
Now there is shelter.
No, no, whatever it is, Melada, no.
Don't move, don't talk, but life, see, there near the wall.
Let's go.
Now go, go back to the house, Ron.
The cold will be born, I will call you, and you will name it.
Now breathe, don't move.
Not yet, friend of mine?
Then what shall we name yours?
My son wants to know.
Ruth Mila, the battalion shall, shall we name?
Out, out, or with this pitchfork.
Now let me look at you.
Step closer to the light.
Two of you.
Two of you now.
We're not thieves.
No.
Truly, we're not thieves.
Then what?
Hikers.
Throw down your papers then, so I'll know it.
Well?
There are no papers.
Refugees?
Yes.
From what?
Terror.
The government of Czechoslovakia?
Yes.
I throw down the pitchfork for whatever symbol you wish to make on it.
I am your friend.
Oh, grateful.
Hush, hush.
Now listen to me.
Yes?
Sleep, and at dawn I'll wake you with directions to the border which is nearby.
And there is a guard I know who is there, and I will send you to him, and he is a friend.
And he will show you how to get into Germany.
I envy your courage.
Hush.
There's your arm.
Move your head.
Do not fear.
You are Radek, the guard.
I am Radek.
Come forward.
And you are the two who slept in my friend's barn.
The pretty young girl and her young man.
The refugees.
Yes.
He said you would be our friend.
Radek, show us how we can get into Germany.
And for this we are...
You are what?
Grateful, because he was kind, as you are kind.
And the final act of kindness.
You're under arrest.
Oh, no.
Yes, I say it.
You are under arrest.
Auto Light is bringing you Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner in Listen Young Lovers.
Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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A true report, well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Betrayal, escape to freedom which is a thing of loneliness and of sobbing and of storm, halted now and betrayed.
Made futile by a man who had given them a night's sleep in his barn and spoke gently of refugees and of courage.
And of help to be had from his friend, the guard.
While they slept, informed to the man of the automatic rifle who stood guard on the Czech-German border who was communist, who was called Radik.
Lambs, lost little lambs to have huddled in his barn from the storm.
To have believed such as him to come so innocent to the slaughter, to Radik.
And you would kill me?
You, if you try something.
Her, her of the pretty young face.
Not her.
Perhaps if a tear fell on such a soft cheek.
Come, move, move.
Where do you take us?
To the hut there, where there's a phone.
Have I called the proper authorities?
Tell them Radik has snared two more.
Radik?
Radik.
How soft you say my name and without fright.
The thing you said.
What thing?
That you would kill him.
If he wants it, if he must pretend to you he is a hero.
He is no hero.
Good.
Not a hero.
Something else.
Mulatta.
Something else you are.
Coward and traitor.
Student.
Who is superior to all around him and arrogant.
And looks down upon those around him.
Upon you little one.
Upon such prettiness as you.
Kill it.
Run Mulatta, run.
The trick and run.
Run across the border into eastern Germany and keep running.
And behind them the shouts of clamor and the baying of dogs.
And like animals hide.
Run again into darkness and under the shield of night.
Exhausted sleep.
Dawn then.
And the highlands of eastern Germany to walk.
And the forests of Bumerwald.
Dangerous to walk the roads because they spoke no German.
Therefore easily recognized as foreigners.
Easily arrested.
And not dare ask for food.
But walk where wilderness is.
Wander the bogs of Turingerwald.
And dig for food.
Henrik, I have found another.
Good.
I have found another feast.
Here Mulatta, under the tree.
Shelter, warmth, food.
And with my love.
What more to ask?
Freedom.
Eat.
I do not want to eat.
You must.
These berries and garnished with roots and after we will hunt for...
Why close to the ground.
Very close.
Do not let a sound breathe into the earth.
Caninchen.
Little wild caninchen from the forest.
And I am the hunter.
And I have found you.
And I have caught you.
Stand up.
And I kill you.
We are refugees.
We are not dangerous.
We are but...
The wild caninchen speak.
He does not understand us Mulatta.
And his look as if he were mad.
But he is pistol.
He holds the pistol close to your face.
He will kill you.
He will.
I have seen you from the forest.
They are eating.
What?
I...
Eat.
So.
Hungry.
He is hungry.
The sign he makes.
Give them to him.
Give him the roots and the berries.
Take them.
Please take them all.
Nein, nein.
You are hungry.
Take them.
We will find out if.
Danke, danke schön.
Oh, Janik.
Hold me.
By now they had lost all track of time.
Some days they covered as much as 10 or 15 miles.
Other days they knew they were lost and had to retrace their steps.
And always there was the hunger.
And always the feeling somehow that the trip would never end.
I can't go on.
I can't.
I can't, I can't.
Mulatta.
You go.
You can make it.
No.
No, listen.
What?
Listen, can you hear it?
A car.
We must be near a highway.
We'll ask someone for a ride.
Yes.
No.
But.
No.
Supposed to communists who stopped for us.
Immediately there will be questions.
Then there will always be the bottles, Mulatta.
The bottles of poison.
We'll die together and that will be our victory.
Yes.
Then come.
Henry.
Yes.
Pray.
Yes.
Was there ever such a prayer that a vehicle should come by?
That the driver of the vehicle be not a communist.
That the driver be not a communist.
Henry.
Please, will you give us a ride?
Is this German?
Nein, we don't speak German.
We're Czech.
Kinder.
Children.
Get into the wagon, quickly.
Get down on the floor.
The car approaching has a spotlight.
It is a patrol car.
Quickly, quickly.
Over there.
You see the bridge?
Yes.
It is the best time to try to cross it.
Now, dawn.
We don't know how to thank you.
Driving all night.
Oh, it is I who should thank you.
To have given me the opportunity to help kindle whatever flame of protest.
Now listen.
Take advantage of the trees along the road.
Go from one to the other.
Send the bridge.
And send the American zone.
Then freedom.
God bless you both and be at your side.
Quickly now, across the road.
Now as the woman said, from tree to tree.
Yes.
All right.
Yes.
Now.
Look, look at the bridge.
Guards.
Two guards.
Russians.
Walking their post.
And across the bridge is freedom.
Across the bridge is life.
Yes.
While the guards are walking away.
Yes.
Melada, get up.
Quickly before the guards.
I can't.
My ankle.
I can't.
I'll help you.
I'm around my shoulder.
I can't.
I think I must have broken it.
Stop.
The Russian guards.
They've seen us.
Run, beloved.
Run.
Not without you.
Stop.
Leave me.
The bottle.
Leave me.
I will drink of mine.
Beloved, beloved.
No separation.
No torture.
Yes.
And I will drink of mine.
Noia Restolan.
Pashli Samanai.
Hey.
Hey, what's happening here?
What's the matter?
American.
Two young people.
Too much whiskey.
Yeah?
What do you think, Sarge?
They're on our side of the bridge.
Please?
We'll take care of them.
But they are our people.
Our side of the bridge, Commissar.
You see the marker?
Our side.
Carry the girl, Nolan.
I'll take care of the guy.
Knock it off, Jack.
Our side of the bridge.
They're blonde.
What's the matter, sis?
Too much of the booze?
What?
Sarge, here.
Poison.
She said, here, here, the guy, too.
Come on.
Let's get a move on.
Radio Free Europe, brought to you by your friends in America.
The voice now of free Czechoslovakia.
This is password Greenbauer.
Between all our friends in the area of Prague.
We have recovered now from the poison, and we have married.
We attend now the Free Europe College in Strasbourg.
Students who escape the Russian orbit are welcome here.
We wait for you with open arms.
There is freedom here, and the teaching of ideas.
Free ideas for which millions have been and are still ready to die.
I hold out my hand to all of you.
And this is password Traviata, calling you of our region.
Greetings and remembrances to all our dear friends.
We wait for you.
We greet you from a free world.
Suspense.
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Next week, a classic study of suspense as we present a new dramatization of one of the
most terrifying stories ever written.
Wilkie Collins, a terribly strange bed.
Our star, Mr. Peter Lawford.
But next week on Suspense.
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick
and conducted by Lud Bluskin.
Listen, Young Lovers was adapted for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin from the
report of David Camelon.
Featured in tonight's cast were Sam Edwards, Frank Goss, Larry Thor, Joseph Kearns, Steve
Roberts, Harry Bartel, Lou Merrill, Jack Prussian, Edith Angold, and Jimmy Eagles.
Jonah Freeman appeared through the courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures and Robert Wagner may
currently be seen co-starring with James Mason and Janet Leigh in the 20th Century Fox picture,
Prince Valiant.
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