Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech delegate to the U.N., told how the Russians were pressuring his country. All Czech envoys, "including the Ambassador to Washington," must make daily reports to the Soviet embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
...Czech men greet women by saying 'Rukullbám' (I kiss your hand) but Communists say only `Dorbý den' (Good day) and give you the back of their hand...
Vital Statistics. Age: 41 (born April 13, 1907, on a 40-acre truck farm in West St. Paul, Minn.). Ancestry: his father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother, Elsie Emma Mueller, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was six years old. Harold was the third of four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota...
Also the Action Committees are certainly not so grue-some as they are described by the Western press. In the Central Action Committee sits also the Dean of our Faculty, Dr. Jan Kozak, Dr. Hromadka, the head of the Czech Brethren Church, and many other non-communists. In our faculty three professors and five docents were put on the retired list. None of really high standard or known to you. Also some few students--seven--were expelled. The English department is untouched. All the decisions of the Action Committee will be verified once more . . . I think even in this respect...
...Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, personal interviewers working through Elmo Roper, his overseas affiliates and, in the case of the U.S. Zone of Germany, the American Military Government, were in the middle of getting their answers to the survey questions when the Czech coup of Feb. 25 took place. Therefore, in the light of events during and since the survey was taken, the responses to some of its questions-especially in the U.S., where our survey was completed before the coup-may now be outdated. On the other hand, many of the replies...