Word: couped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
...there has been no direct censorship or expulsion of U.S. correspondents from Czechoslovakia. Will Lang, of TIME Inc.'s Berlin bureau, who covered the coup, cabled that before he left Prague his Czech friends had already begun to avoid him, saying it would be unwise for them to be seen with an American any more...
...goes. Until the coup, Czechoslovakia was the only country within the Soviet orbit where TIME & LIFE could be distributed freely. It was the only country freely visited by people from other Russian-dominated countries and, therefore, almost the last portal through which the publications of the Western democracies could find their way to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. As this letter goes to press, TLI has written Czechoslovakia off as another example of the fact, which TLI has learned the hard way, that the war of ideas is a real...
...reminders: 1) in Parliament, right and center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...
President Conant's action, taken in concert with several other American universities and colleges, came after he had requested and received information from Washington on events in the Prague school since the coup d'etat two weeks...