Word: crs
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Czech foreign policy is Germany. I can't expect anybody in America to realize the intense batred these people have for the Germans. It's a mania. The three million Germans who were in CRS before the war and during the occupation were moved bodily back to Germany. Before the war the Germans here enjoyed national privileges. They had their own schools and churches and spoke their own language, (Kafta was one of them, but also a Jew.) The hatred is so great that German signs at international railroad cars have been painted over, German (which all the Czechs, speak...
...CRS backed out of the Marshall plan when Russia sent over word that she didn't like the idea. What Benes said was that the Czechs are not between Russia and America, but between Russia and Germany, and Germany and America begin to mean the same thing when the US starts planning to reindustrialize the Western Zones. The French feel the same way. At the bottom of it, you've got to realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin...
...most of the people don't think that way or that there are many honest liberals in America. UnAmerican investigations come over here as a story almost of terrorism, of restriction of political freedom (which it is); and people are honestly harmed. If there are 400 thousand Communists in CRS or a million in France, they're Communists because they want to be--or they've legally voted that way--and they don't exactly like the idea of Communists in America getting the ax. On the other hand, they know that Republicans are not being tolerated in Russia...
Nationalism always comes before politics, and a Communist in CRS thinks a French communist is all wet, but he's going to turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel...
Realistically, CRS is two states, Slovakia and the Czech combination of Bohomia and Moravia. I don't know much about Slovakia-haven't been there-except that it in a rather rural, backward area, dominated strongly by the Church. During the war, the Germans, trying to divide the republic during the occupation, feted the Slovaks with all kinds of food and materials, and people being naturally conservative, they look back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide...