Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the Foreign Office had foreseen, Czech Premier Antonin Zapotocky went to Pilsen to celebrate liberation after his own fashion. Speaking in the assembly hall of the Pilsen Skoda works, Zapotocky said: "We shall never forget that it was our former Western allies who in Munich . . . weakened and destroyed our defenses . . . Therefore, we cannot believe that the Western capitalist states were at all concerned with our liberty and independence. If anyone fought for our freedom, really defeated and drove out the German invaders, it was solely the heroic Soviet army." Then, on behalf of the workers...
...fall of 1948, a big car made its way through the streets of Oxford, England, bearing a tubby little old man with a scraggly mustache, who had come to take his first look at the university. At that time few Oxonians had ever heard of 70-year-old Antonin Besse. Nor did they know that he was the mysterious, anonymous French millionaire who had just given Oxford one of the biggest gifts in its history-$6,000,000 for a new college (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949). But by last week, the whole university was buzzing with preparations for Oxford...