Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist countries, home truths are best disguised as fiction. The following remarkable fable, written by Czech Author Jiri Marek, appeared recently in the Prague Communist weekly Literarni Noviny...
...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...
...nearly three years the widow of topflight Gestapoman Reinhardt ("the Hangman") Heydrich (see BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...
...composers who have come to America from abroad, Bohuslav Martinu has achieved a large measure of recognition in this country. His Czech origins shine through his music more in his melodies than in his harmonies or forms, which are modern in convention yet somewhat Baroque in spirit. He is a prolific composer, and his many pieces include mediocre works along with decidedly more successful ones. Westminster has just put out a record that illustrated both facets of his talent. The Concerto Grosso is a fine piece of music, with incisive themes and strong rhythmic drive. But its companion...
...delegate to the U.N. Social and Economic Conference in Geneva, Cahfee made a speech inquiring why a Czech friend of his was at the first meeting of the conference but absent from the second. Incidentally alluding to the Russian coup of the week before in Czechoslovakia, Chafee lamented the fact that the Czechs were not represented at the Conference. The speech, he recalls, made the Reds feel uncomfortable for the remainder of the session. Chafee was told not to become too intimate with the Russian delegate. "I'm not too well built to do what I'm told though...