Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electorate's support. That claim would be proved, or disproved, only when Czechoslovaks got the secret, direct elections which the Provisional Parliament was commissioned to prepare. In American eyes this was neither freedom nor the promise of freedom. But Americans had not shared-they could hardly imagine-the Czech experience in the occupation years. In Czechoslovakia, as in all Europe, men in 1945 accepted or even welcomed measures which they would have abhorred in the democratic past...
There were some 3,000,000 more to go from Czechoslovakia within the next year, if the Big Three approved the transfer as "orderly and humane." Where would they go? That, said Czechoslovakia's Premier Zdenek Fierlinger with cool detachment, was not a Czech problem. "It is the duty of the Germans to care for their...
...Focus. The Council of Foreign Ministers' opening session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) marked the return of Europe's political life. London embassies carried a heavy traffic of emissaries: the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos; French Socialism's aging Leon Blum; the Czech Premier, soft-spoken Zdenek Fierlinger; Britain's ambassadors and ministers to Near and Middle East countries...
...trial of hated Dr. Josef Pfitzner, Czechoslovakia's No. 3 war criminal,* took three days. The greying, pasty-faced Czech historian, of German descent, who had served the Nazis as Lord Mayor of Prague, shrilly defended his collaboration, swore that he had been loyal to the Republic. The People's Court in Prague heard him patiently, weighed his words against his deeds: persecution of Jews, jailing of students, Germanizing of Czechs, toadying to Hitler. Then it sentenced him to death for high treason...
...scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...