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...eight years Czech Social Democratic Leader Bohumil Lausman kept asking himself where he belonged. He wandered between the East and the West, between his allegiances to political democracy and to Marxist economics. Like thousands of other Socialists and Liberals, he kept trying to reconcile the two and kept failing...
Finally, in 1950, Lausman seemed to make up his mind. He fled to the West and denounced Czechoslovakia as "the best Soviet arsenal in Europe." The Prague regime called him a disguised U.S. spy; Czech emigres called him a disguised Red spy. Bitter and unhappy, Lausman went off to Yugoslavia, where the West and Communism seem to meet...
...Glasses. One day late last year he got word that an old friend wanted to see him in Paris. On Nov. 17 Lausman and a companion went to the corner of Avenue Charles Floquet and the Rue Desaix and there confronted the old friend, Czech Ambassador Gustav Soucek. Said Soucek: "The political line at home will soon change to a more liberal line." Lausman was fascinated. He eagerly sought a second meeting...
...envisage the bomber fleets taking off at the drop of a hat to slaughter millions of defenseless people," said Slessor. "In a situation like, say, the Czech crisis of 1938, the first step would be a clear warning in secret that any attempt at a solution by force would bring the guarantee into operation. If that did not work . . . the people concerned should be told clearly-by radio and pamphlets dropped from the air-what will happen if their government uses force, and warned to evacuate a specified list of cities . . . At the same time, we should move the bomber...
...Meeting in London, the International Amateur Athletic Federation approved 38 new track and field world records. Among the most important: three for Czech Marathoner Emil Zatopek, at six miles (28:08.4), 10,000 meters (29:01.6) and 30,000 meters (1:35:23.8); two for the U.S.'s Mai Whitfield, at the half mile (1:48.6) and 1,000 meters...