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...looked one another over that summer day in Athens in 1945. Roula, dark-eyed and bosomy, already had a husband, having as a village schoolgirl run off with a Communist schoolteacher 14 years her senior. Niko, who had just arrived home from three years in Dachau, already had a Czech wife and a son. But such encumbrances can be voided when a girl Communist is ambitious, or when the man is Niko Zachariades, Communist boss in Greece and special protégé of Stalin. Niko deserted his wife and shortly after, Roula's high-school teacher was picked...
Died. Václav Nosek, 59, bulb-nosed Himmler of the Czech Communist regime, believed to have been involved in the "defenestration" death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948; after long illness; in Prague. Nosek fled to England when the Nazis seized power, returned as Minister of the Interior in the pre-Communist coalition government, and systematically helped turn his country into a police state...
...Czech Composer Leos Janacek (Jenufa) was fascinated by Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel. From the House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
...Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...
After Hitler. As a sculptor, Fritz Wotruba would have long since become a world figure if it had not been for Hitler and World War II. The son of a poor Czech tailor, Wotruba was put to work at 14 as a metal worker, took art lessons at night. Although he was 18 before he finally became a sculpture student, by 23 he had sold a major work, Monumental Giant, to the city of Vienna. But what was the beginning of a brilliant career was cut short by the arrival of Hitler, and the Nazi campaign against what they called...