Word: czechoslovak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the weekly Literarni Noviny, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Writers, was moved to mix praise of the TIME volume with big-brotherly caution. It ran a reproduction of Richard Florsheim's Night City from the book and commented...
...Prague court last week, a Czechoslovak entrepreneur named Roman Novotny drew a stiff sentence of 4½ years in prison and forfeiture of all his property for engaging in one of the most profitable -and widely practiced-businesses behind the Iron Curtain. With a group of friends Novotny rounded up 56 used cars of various makes in the first six months of 1957 alone, sold them at up to double official prices set by the Communist government. Chided Radio Prague: "The speculators exploited the impatience and lack of discipline of the citizens...
Czech Mates. The Brest-Litovsk treaty had stranded a Czechoslovak legion in the Ukraine. Before long, these displaced Czech soldiers were locked in combat with the Reds. Wilson believed that they were fighting against bands of German war prisoners who had rearmed themselves, and when he finally gave the order to intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions...
Inside Game. The Communist play of his speech had a significance of its own. Both the Hungarian radio and Polish press carried excerpts from it. Moscow did not, nor did the Bulgarian, Rumanian or Czechoslovak radios. The Italian Communist press featured it; the French Communist press attacked it. This unusual pattern was an indication of where the tough line was in control, and where...
...Czechoslovakia, sensitive neighbor to Poland, Khrushchev decided on direct intervention. To head off a Polish-type independence move there, a 13-man Soviet delegation, led by one of Comrade Khrushchev's top aides, arrived in Prague last week to "study the life and work of the Czechoslovak party," i.e., to make sure Moscow kept control of the secret police...