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...Released the text of his letter to Czech President Antonin Zapatocky, asking for the repatriation of Bill Oatis (see PRESS) as one way to ease the tensions between the two countries...
...turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...freeing Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, the Czech Communists put their best propaganda foot forward. Oatis was released, the Czechs announced, because of a pleading letter from his wife. Last week the White House gave out the true story. Two months ago, President Eisenhower wrote a letter to Czech President Antonin Zapotocky, pointing out that the U.S. would consider easing up the economic squeeze on Czechoslovakia only if Oatis was freed from his ten-year sentence on an espionage charge. Wrote Ike: "If your government will release Mr. Oatis . . . the United States Government . . . is prepared to negotiate . . . the issues arising...
Back in New York two days later, Oatis was greeted at the airport by his wife and more than 200 newsmen. Meanwhile the State Department, which had cut off all trade with Czechoslovakia, banned tourist travel and forbidden Czech planes to fly over the U.S. zone of Germany, made it clear that no "deal" had been made with the Czechs to get Oatis freed...
Actually, many a newsman felt that in freeing Oatis, the Czechs had only rectified one of their worst outrages against the West and its press, and that there was much more they could do. Said the New York Times: "Is [the Czech] government willing to permit truthful reporting from Prague and to grant personal security to foreign newspapermen honestly engaged in such reporting? That is the real test which, even as we welcome Mr. Oatis, cannot be absent from our minds...