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...eight years Czech Social Democratic Leader Bohumil Lausman kept asking himself where he belonged. He wandered between the East and the West, between his allegiances to political democracy and to Marxist economics. Like thousands of other Socialists and Liberals, he kept trying to reconcile the two and kept failing...
Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...
...list of the new cabinet ministers (twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
...promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...
From Prague General Bohumil Bocek, Czechoslovak Chief of Staff, broadcast last week that henceforth the organization, armament and training of the Czechoslovak military forces will be iden tical with the Russian Army's. Czechoslovak officers will be trained in Soviet military schools...