Mgr. Alena Dixon

"[On] 21 [29] August 1952, shortly after the gentleman [with a yellow suitcase asking for cooperation] had visited him, the StB came and arrested [grandfather]. They took him to the Příbram District Prison for interrogation and policemen from Milín questioned him. They claimed he listened to western radio and subverted the JZD which had not yet formed properly, thwarting the new effort that was just beginning. During the interrogations, they were taken out into the yard and made to walk around. I am telling it as my grandfather describes it in his biography. Grandpa noticed this young man who had come to his door with a yellow briefcase walking in the circle too. He suddenly ran up to grandpa and begged him not to disclose that he had visited. Grandpa found it very strange. In fact, they didn't know how to... [In short], they had no evidence on Grandpa. He basically did nothing wrong. And this man - [Grandpa] didn't even know his name - just appeared suddenly... But he never saw him again the next day or for the rest of the time. Then they took him to the Klatovy District Prison where the questioning continued. Accusations of treason..."

"An editor of Lidové noviny [with family] visited him in early 1952. Since he [my grandfather] was a member of the [Czechoslovak] People's Party, he and my uncle Záruba who lived in the same house and my grandmother welcomed them. They had a long discussion about political and public developments in our country at that time. They also shared personal affairs. They were very friendly; the editor - my grandfather gives his surname as Souček - came with his wife and his family, his children. He mentioned he had a rock collection. He said he would love to have a stone from the uranium mines in Příbram in his collection. My grandfather daid, 'A friend of mine works there, and he will definitely do this for me. I'll get it for you.' That's what happened. After some time, the alleged editor Souček came to collect the stone and took it away. Then my grandfather went to see him; he said he lived in Sedlec near Rožmitál. Nobody knew him there, he didn't live there. A few people said they knew him, but that he had moved to the borderland and they did not know where he lived. My grandfather found that weird..."