Word: bratislava
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...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...
Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
...Bratislava last week, Slovak independence provided a test of his technique. During a soccer game between the Czech-Moravian team and the Slovak eleven, Slovak spectators took offense at two sudden Czech goals, injured several Czech players. The rioters were finally subdued with a fire hose...
Gottwald's Communists set the crushing wheels of their party machine in motion. Bratislava's workers paralyzed the whole city in a general strike, noisily demanded that Conservative election gains in Slovakia be scratched. Slovaks were beginning to learn that Communists, even if defeated at the polls, have ways of continuing the fight...