Jiří Spousta

“After that I quit with my scouting activities completely. I had to work in the mine on Saturdays in order to provide for the family because Jirka began studying at that time.”

“...on the influence of Scouting. I spent some years there, and what it has left within me was, well, how to call it, not exactly strictness, but rather some kind of thoroughness.”

“It was no longer really possible because the Germans were especially careful about that. One didn’t know what might happen. I was a boy of twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three, and I didn’t have the courage to do something like that. I was more of a coward.”

“As I said, Míra Jágr chose me as his deputy, but I didn’t have the abilities he had. He was two years older, that’s true, but he knew what he wanted.”