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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not stated on the item (English-language Czechoslovakia leaflet series, page 9)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Czechoslovak Government in Exile
- Leader
- Edvard Benes
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (no rights statement; wartime Allied publication)
Issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-768.
Text on the object
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. 9
