Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladislav Rieger, a member of the Communist "action committee" which had taken over the Czech universities, con tinued the battle for the "new humanism." When he finished, Germany's Walter Brugger remarked: "I see no difference between the Marxist philosophy and the philosophy of Naziism." A hurt, weary look appeared on Rieger's face. "Always the same confusion," he sighed...
Dogged, deliberate Quist beat the erratic No. 2 Czech, Vladimir Cernik, with little trouble, 6-2, 13-11, 6-0. Then wiry little Billy Sidwell, 28, went up against Jaroslav Drobny, 27, Europe's best. Billy's backhand was in perfect control, and he tantalized the left-handed Czech with frequent line placements on his left side. Between sets, Sidwell sat down to catch his breath, keeping Drobny waiting, and picked himself up with great deliberation whenever he slipped on the dewy grass. Uncharitable spectators figured that the Australian was just grandstanding; but insiders knew that Sidwell...
...relieve the siege of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). Another appeared in the testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain...
...Czech army 70% of the 140,000 enlisted men can be counted as antiCommunist. Among officers the percentage is smaller because those with known democratic leanings have been purged. Some 1,200 officers have already been released or purged, including 25 of the 120 generals. About 14 generals have already escaped. Many, many more would like to escape . . . The western frontier is now more heavily guarded than at any time since the war. There are 45,000 police troops guarding the border and patrolling the Bohemian forests...
...Members of the Czech air force have left the country by the hundreds, some of them flying their own planes. Because the government is worried that others may do so, it is removing many from the air force, which as a consequence is undergoing a marked disintegration...