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You're always right with auto light And now auto light defense 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 turret the city of Prague There's a boy named in Rick and he was 21 and until this morning He'd been a student at the communist control University And now he faced his inquisitors Go to the window you need it go on in Rick go to the window Now down there. Do you see the automobiles the automobiles you see them? In Rick in Rick. Yes Yes, I sit and the people Yes, and the building of the Ministry of War Yes, therefore they exist because you see them Understand you please yes. What is it comrade? Of course? We are all comrades in Rick this comrade for example Yeah You see his medals certainly because they exist and his sword. Yeah, his head. Yeah his mind Comrade his mind or this comrade's mind or Shall we have you shot you in Rick or his expulsion enough What do you think comrades showed him? What was the book you were caught with in Rick varieties of religious experiences by Henry James Western philosophy have him shot shoot him have him shot blood and blood and blood In Rick. Yes To kill you would be to fail you are clever you think Therefore if you are clever for us Thought 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 this my lord This that they have done to you Yes, after it will come arrest and Torture and imprisonment and the labor camp Malata and death As it came to Mikolash who also was a student Who also read of alien philosophy Malata death death stop it. We speak of it no more Malata What time is it? It's almost the hour of turn on the radio then Lower turn it lower And sit with me You watch the fall of night and hold me Gentle Malata radio free Europe bringing you the news of the free world I'm not forgotten and the hope of your future liberation. This is password little God 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 have priced us Calling my friends from the Krumloff area The border crossing was hard and exhausting, but it was a success now. I am well, and I see true freedom Right 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 Well, they have found the climate of freedom and of learning. Why have you turned it off? I Thought I heard a step on the stairs in the hall Yes, I did here turn on the lights and a lot of quickly Perhaps it's only the man who lived up Stepan comrade stepan 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 Milada, 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 fiance Milada Why are you here? I told you it was a night of loneliness and of regret How harsh we were with him Milada 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 Milada and love also Then 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 or a path to cradle his corpse Tomorrow in Rick and we will welcome you back with such warmth such joy Good night, you know In Rick Rick 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 In Rick, yes But it must be now immediately now get your coat scarf for your hair if you have candy bars Quickly Milada quickly my scarf my coat candy bar And this take it in Rick. What is it the same that I have for myself a small bottle of liquid a Poison that is kept here for insects and vermin Milada if we are caught we will drink it together we will drink it In this way, they will never separate us This way won't we will never leave each other 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 cloud know across the Tava River swollen by spring rains to cross Lycee and close to the border now Lonely paths 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 pre back there and in the thunder I I Prayed for a shelter for you and now there's a barn Now there is show No, no whatever it is Milada. No Don't move don't talk, but like see there near the wall With this pitchfork me look at you Step closer to the light two of you now. We're not these No truly would not feed and what hikers Throw down your papers then so I'll know it. 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 I am your friend Great hush hush now listen to me. Yes Sleep and a 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 You are radic the guard Come forward for the two who slept in my friend's barn the pretty young girl and her young man the refugees Yes, he said you'd be our friend Radic show us how we can get into Germany and for this we are what? Grateful because he was kind as you are kind and the final act of kindness You're under arrest. Oh, yes. I say it You're under arrest the light is bringing you Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner in Listen young lovers tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Say a half you wouldn't buy ice cream without specifying the flavor. Would you of course not Harlow? And yet many drivers get new parts for their cars vital electrical system and never know what they're taking They're taking a big chance. 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You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Robert Wagner and Mona Freeman in Elliot Lewis's production of listen young lovers 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 Have helped 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? Was called radical 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 Radic and you would kill you if you try something Her the pretty young face Not her the hat if a tear fell on such a soft cheek Come move move What do you take it for the hut there where there's a phone I call the proper authorities Tell them Radick has snared two more Radick Radick How soft you say my name and without fright The thing you said what thing? But 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 Malata something else you are powered and traitor student Who is superior to all around him and? arrogant And looks down upon those around him Upon your little one upon such prettiness as you Run Malata 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 and The highlands of eastern Germany to walk and the forests of boomer valve 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 Kringervald and dig for food I have found another good. We will have a feast here Malata under the tree shelter warm food and with my mom 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 My close to the ground very close Do not or a sound breathe into the earth Karinchen Kleine will the Karinchen out of the world And it's been there yet or it's a boy to find them or like to find them Head out, but it's to it. I We are refugees. We're not dangerous. We are but she's working There's a linden each expression Doesn't understand a lot of and his look as if he were mad No You have a phone volume the arson grade What I Though Hungry hungry The sign you make give them to him given the roots and the berries Take them please take them all night night. You're hungry Take them we will find out is actually By now they'd 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 Can't go on I can't I can't I can't water you go you can make it. No No, listen what? Listen, can you hear it? We must be near a highway. We'll ask someone for a ride. Yes No, but no Supposed to come in to stop for us Immediately there will be questions and then there will always be the bottles and a lot of the bottles of poison We'll die together and that will be our victory Was it ever such a prayer that a vehicle should come by? But the driver of the vehicle being not a communist will you give us a ride Nine we don't speak German We're a check Get into the wagon quickly Get down on the floor The car approaching has a spotlight. It is a patrol car quickly quickly To try to cross it now dawn. We don't have a thank you Driving on now it is I who should thank you to have given me the opportunity to help Kindle Whatever claim 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 walking their post and across the bridge is freedom across the bridge is life While the guards are walking away Melana get up quickly before the guards. I'll help you. I'm around my shoulder. They've seen us not without you The bottle I will drink of mine separation. No torch. Please we'll take care of them But they are our people all side of a bridge commissar. You see the marker our side Carry the girl Nolan. I'll take care of the guy. Yeah, but knock it off Jack our side of the bridge. It won't What's the matter sis. Too much of the booze. She said yeah yeah the guy too. Come on let's get a move on Up to you by your friends in America. The voice now are free Czechoslovakia. This is password Greenbauer calling 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 love our region greetings and Remembrances to all our dear friends We wait for you We greet you from a free world suspense Presented by auto light tonight stars Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner a Few weeks ago the $100,000 auto light family charity drawing ended since then 47 regional drawings have been conducted under the supervision of member clubs of the American automobile Association Tomorrow in New York City the national drawing will be held a distinguished committee of civic religious and charity leaders will witness the event as your representatives the first name the first person whose name is selected will designate $50,000 in cash to any charity or charities. He or she wishes the next person will designate 20,000 and the third person selected will designate $5,000 to his or her favorite charity the next 22 persons named will designate sums of a thousand to three thousand each to charities They choose The person selected in tomorrow's drawing will be notified by mail this week And now this is Harlow Wilcox speaking for the entire auto light family thanking each and every one of you who registered 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 Lofford that's 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 tonight's cast for Sam Edwards Frank Goss Larry Thor Joseph Kearns Steve Roberts Harry Bartell Lou Merrill Jack Prussian Edith Angold and Jimmy Eagles Mona Freeman appeared through the courtesy of RKO radio pictures and Robert Wagner may currently be seen co-starring with James Mason and Janet Lee in the 20th century Fox picture Prince Valiant and Remember next week. Mr. Peter Lofford stars in Wilkie Collins story a terribly strange bet You can buy auto light original service parts auto light standard or resistor type spot plugs or auto light stay a full batteries at your neighborhood auto light dealers Switch to auto light. Good night. This is the CBS radio network