Word: berane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interior Vaclav Nosek "discovered" the National Socialist Party's conspiracy against the state, Prague shivered with cold and fright. Truckloads of armed police with brand-new automatic rifles rumbled through the streets. Opposition leaders were arrested and Parliament, scheduled to meet next day, postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds...
...Cheung Mui, of Columbia, and Karl Beran of Prague's English College relieve the theoretical atmosphere with repertorial articles that are ample reply to any charges of "hot air" that may be levelled against this post-war forum. The active anti-Nazi cooperation of Czech and Polish students, as well as the fear of Oriental liberals of the native reactionaries who may oppress them when the foreign oppressors leave, is not well known, but certainly worth knowing...