Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered a subscription for LIFE and TIME in the name of - (a Czechoslovakian citizen). This happened to be a Christmas gift. Now the subscriber says his life has been threatened if he continues to receive your magazines. Will you, therefore, stop service immediately...
...response to this prophetic warning, TLI struck the name from its list and began its own investigation of the hazards of sending further copies to its Czechoslovakian subscribers. Meanwhile, the Communists brought off their coup and, as you may have read in your newspapers, promptly banned TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications on grounds of "malicious reporting...
Three events of crucial importance, he pointed out, made the way an appropriate one for a discussion of Western Europe's future. President Truman's speech on American foreign policy, the signing of the Western European agreement in Brussels, and the opening of debate on the Czechoslovakian situation in the Security Council are of the highest significance...
Before the Czechoslovakian coup, Austria's hopes had concentrated on a peace treaty and the withdrawal of occupation troops. Now, Austrians hoped privately for continued deadlock in the treaty negotiations in London. So long as the occupation troops of the Western powers were present, the Austrians realized, the Communists could not take over, short of armed aggression. The Russians had been stalling on the peace treaty for months; now the Western powers might do some boot dragging...
...small Czechoslovakian town in Liberce, officials yesterday took the first move toward merging the country's Communist and Social Democratic parties into a "Worker's Unity Party." The action committee of the town's Social Democratic party asked the group's national headquarters to let them join forces with the Communists. Similar mergers elsewhere in Eastern Europe have marked the disappearance of the social Democrats...