Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slovakia last week, peasants armed with scythes and clubs assailed police who entered parish churches to arrest Roman Catholic priests. At least two policemen were killed. Workers' militia and regular troops were rushed to the areas of disturbance...
...Slovakia, monasteries were forcibly cleared out and the priests and nuns taken away in trucks . . . The meeting of bishops at Dolny Smokovec [last March], which was to have taken a stand on the demands of the government, was broken up when listening devices were discovered in the conference room . . . The latest conference of bishops in Prague was disrupted by security police...
Realistically, CRS is two states, Slovakia and the Czech combination of Bohomia and Moravia. I don't know much about Slovakia-haven't been there-except that it in a rather rural, backward area, dominated strongly by the Church. During the war, the Germans, trying to divide the republic during the occupation, feted the Slovaks with all kinds of food and materials, and people being naturally conservative, they look back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide...
...Slovakia's Communist-directed Commissioner of Interior Mikulas Ferjencik. He smelled a conspiracy, and began cramming Bratislava's jails with suspected conspirators. At first, few Czechs in Prague seemed to realize that Slovakia was just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members...
...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...