Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
Roman J. Halla, 23, arrived in the U.S. a few weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached...
...clandestine newspaper. Several of his friends (there were 15 editors in all) have since been arrested and the paper, he fears, was forced to suspend. He feels sure, however, that TIME articles found their way into other illegal leaflets and publications, not only in Czechoslovakia but in many other Communist-dominated countries. "The oppressed people of all Europe are looking up to your magazine," he said. "I know because I was one of them...
...Communist China and Communist Russia confronted the non-Communist world with a sharp, significant display of comradely teamwork...
...groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...