Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from Oxford, a Middle East correspondent for the London Evening Standard had made a guess of his own, cabled it to his paper. The Standard put in a phone call to a villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
...most important military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
...Premier Antonin Zapotocky (TIME, June 21) announced plans for further purges of the army,* the courts, the schools, the libraries, and the economy ("to erase the last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest...
Czechoslovakia was straddled by a new boss. His name was Antonin Zapotocky. At 64 he was the closest approach to an Old Bolshevik that new Czechoslovakia could produce...
Then his will broke; he signed the document accepting Gottwald's cabinet, while burly Communist Deputy Premier Antonin Zopotocky looked on (see cut). Said Benes: "This government will only have evil results...