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The article reports on a family of refugees from Czechoslovakia who arrived in the U.S. zone of Austria buried deep within a load of lumber. Members of the family include baker Bedrich Cech, his son, daughter-in-law and two small grandchildren. Details of the preparations made by the family for their trip are given, including drugging the children and lining the traveling space with tar paper. The family plans to go to Earlham, Iowa where Cech's daughter is staying.

The article offers an update on several prominent personalities, as of April 1952. Czech Republic ambassador to the U.S. Vladimir Prochazka was deported back to his country and was put in jail. British Private Dennis Eggleton has returned to Berlin, Germany from Russia and reported that the Russians had founded a "deserters' village" at Bautzen near the border of the Czech Republic and Poland. Serbian lawyer Nikola Mrvojevic and his group hijacked a plane bound to Ljubljana, Slovenia to seek asylum in Graz, Austria.