Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA Docile & Grey Twenty-four hours after President Antonin Zapotocky, dead of a heart attack, was buried with full Communist honors, the Czech National Assembly last week smoothly elected his successor by a unanimous show of 353 hands. The new President: Antonin Novotny, 52. the onetime locksmith who has been First Secretary of the Czech Communist Party since 1953. In a departure from the post-Stalin taboo against party leaders' taking government posts, Novotny kept his party job. But, like all the other changes inflicted on the nation by the Communists since the 1948 Putsch, this one caused hardly...
...Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
...rotund, cup-nosed, mica-eyed man who was bustling and belly-laughing his way through Czechoslovakia last week. Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger. Overflowing with friendship and good humor, he bussed pale, frigid Czech Communist Leader Antonin Novotny on both cheeks and rode through Prague, which was tapestried with flags and banners and huge portraits of himself, on the jump seat of the reception automobile waving a panama...
Last week, at a five-day conference of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party, the party's First Secretary Antonin Novotny admitted that dissatisfaction had spread beyond the students. As a result of Khrushchev's historic speech to the 20th Party Congress, said Novotny, "235 party organizations, embracing a little over 15,000 members, under the influence of ambiguous and incorrect views, made the request that an extraordinary congress of the party should be called." Novotny turned the idea down flat: the party line was correct and "we need not alter...
...pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...