Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme. But it is oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact to leak out, the repercussions might wreck the Prescott Proposals...
...universities that has no government subsidy, Pro Deo is still able to afford such lecturers as Roberto Rossellini and U.S. Economist Peter Drucker. Students from 26 different countries have studied there, and gifts have come in from such far-flung sources as the family of the late Czech industrialist Thomas Bata and U.S. Cardinals Spellman and Stritch. Last week Father Morlion was making plans for a new institute of European studies. The man slated to take charge of it (on a part-time basis): Alcide de Gasped...
...examine and try to extend areas of agreement, rather than concentrate on areas of disagreement, as holding out promise for "the saving of Western Civilization." Yet only by seeing the proposals as immensely significant, can the audience be very excited by the threatened ruin of the plan when the Czech U.N. Delegate and former lover of Mrs. Prescott inconsiderately drops dead in her bedroom. Nor without accepting the importance of the proposals, can the audience find credible the willingness of Mrs. Prescott's fellow delegates to remove the body and conceal the truth. The last scene of the play, however...
Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
...Soviet zone of Germany last week came stories of guerrilla bands attacking Vopos (People's Police) and even Red army units. East Berlin's Communist Neues Deutschland ran pictures of four Vopos recently killed near Cottbus. and rewards of 1,000 marks each were posted for three Czech refugees who. presumably, had done the killing. In special maneuvers, some 25,000 Vopos took to the field with full packs, sending scouting parties across the countryside, posting guards on the highways and digging foxholes. The East German Interior Ministry announced it had uncovered and smashed a number...