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title: Love of Sport - Czechoslovakia
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cz-love-of-sport-leaflet-1939/
description: A landscape leaflet page with four photographs (ice hockey, a goalkeeper, a tennis champion with cups, a group of gymnasts) beside text on national sport.
section: Collection
---

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# Love of Sport - Czechoslovakia

A landscape leaflet page with four photographs (ice hockey, a goalkeeper, a tennis champion with cups, a group of gymnasts) beside text on national sport. The tell for glittering generalities is 'in almost all forms of sport the Czechoslovaks excel' and 'world-beaters'; the tell for card-stacking is the list of successes without comparison or dates.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LOVE OF SPORT

Like ourselves the Czechoslovaks love games and sport. About a million pounds was spent annually by the Government to provide better sporting equipment and facilities.

In almost all forms of sport the Czechoslovaks excel. Their football and ice-hockey teams have more than once been champions of Europe. Their gymnasts and swimmers carried off many cups at International contests ; at tennis and table-tennis they are world-beaters.

TOP RIGHT :
Karel Kozeluh—for many years the world professional champion tennis player.

BOTTOM LEFT :
Planicka—most famous of international goalkeepers on the Continent.

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```

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