Czech University Student Skeptical Of 'Iron Curtain'

"No Iron Curtain surrounds Czechoslovakia," declared Prague student Zdenek Salyzmann yesterday.

The visitor from 600-yard-old Charles University, now in the United States as traveling secretary for the World Student Service Fund to which Harvard contributed $21,000 last year, said, "The American press keeps its country just as misinformed of Czechoslovakian activities as the Czech papers do their readers of doings in America."

"People in this country are too pessimistic of Czech affairs," asserted Salzmann. "The fact that American correspondents in Prague can write back what they want without government interference is proof in itself of liberality."

All Must Vote

Salzmann pointed to the Czech law which requires that every adult vote or face trial and the recent elections which U.S. observers declared "completely free" as showing the democratic spirit in Czechoslovakia.

At present touring American schools to explain where their WSSF donations have gone and what specific needs of European students they have satisfied, Salzmann admitted that "America can't agree with everything in Europe," but added, "Aid to foreign students right now will do more for international understanding than else."