Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were mostly preoccupied with the delights and hazards of freedom. Several hundred Russian, Polish and Czech farm laborers shut Count & Countess Wolff von Metternich in their Westphalian castle, organized an impromptu commune. Said one of the Russians: "For five years we watched them eat eggs. Now we eat eggs...
...Kosice, which will be Czechoslovakia's capital until Prague is liberated, Benes will stop in Moscow to discuss matters with Joseph Stalin. Most likely successor to Premier Monsignor Jan Sramek, of the Czech People's Catholic Party, will be Vavro Srobar, a Slovak and an agrarian leftist. Other ministerial portfolios will go to a national front coalition, including Socialists (Benes' party), Communists (No. 4 party in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia), Social Democrats. Czech People's Catholics, Small Farmers (a leftist group) and the Slovak National Council (Slovak resistance...
...Moscow, it was reported, Benes would also deed the Czech province of Ruthenia to Russia, whose claims to it had not been stilled (as Czechs had hoped) by Czechoslovakia's hasty recognition of Poland's Warsaw Government...
...Moravian Gate. President Bierut discussed two territorial divisions-East Prussia and the former Czech industrial district of Teschen-in detail. Poland and Russia's common frontier in East Prussia, he said, had not yet been worked out. But since there were many Lithuanians living around Königsberg, he presumed that that section of East Prussia would be incorporated in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic. Bierut "hoped and believed" that the Teschen question could be settled amicably with the Czech Government. In any case, Teschen would remain Polish...
...Czech Government in Exile, at which the Kremlin has been looking squint-eyed, presumably because of its slowness in recognizing the Warsaw Government, this week prepared to install itself in the liberated section of Czechoslovakia...