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...Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
KOMEKON's progress is disturbingly impressive, but the strain, the sacrifice, the sabotage and the suffering is also immense -and sizable enough for the Communists themselves to acknowledge. From their own propaganda broadcasts, from hour after monotonous hour of "selfcriticism" at the Czech purge trials, from intelligence studies of East Europe's censored, servile press last week, came these portents of KOMEKON's troubles...
Czechoslovakia. To a conference of Consumer Cooperatives in Prague, Communist Party Secretary Josef Tesla announced "great deficiencies" in coal production. Food Minister Ludmila Jankoucova broadcast an appeal for wheelbarrows and carts to ease a "transport crisis" on the Czech railroads. Both seemed anxious to lay the blame on Slansky & Co., who were even then headed for the gallows. As if in explanation, Radio Prague played recordings from the trial testimony of Ludvik Frejka, who was author of the Czechoslovakian two-and five-year plans...
...Czech prosecutor, in summing up his case against 14 defendants, 11 of whom were Jews, said "They are rats, snakes, and cannibals, and the verdict of the judges must fall like an iron fist on this nest of snakes without mercy." Zionism was listed as one of their major crimes...
Referring to the recent high level Czech purge as "Nazi-like," Shimon Chasdi 3G, native of Palestine and former captain in the Israeli army, expressed apprehension about the spread of anti-Semitism in the Soviet sphere...