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Cooperation with the Communists: "When Hromadka declared [his] attitude . . . many of his colleagues in the Czech church considered it a false step. Some even questioned his integrity . . . But now most of this has changed. There are still those who disagree, but they do not question his integrity-only his judgment. An increasing number of the younger students have come to take this position...
Policy as a Czech Christian: "There are not many choices ... If one will not work with the regime in its endeavor to reshape the old economic order, and tries to undermine it, one follows a path which can only lead to anarchy and ugly reaction...
...taken by a man who promises to be no better: Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, 50, who earned his greatest diplomatic laurels as Soviet Ambassador to Prague from 1945 to 1947. U.S. Intelligence men credit him with supervising the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. For his services, he was awarded the Czech Order of the White Lion. U.S. diplomats remember him principally for his appearance at a 1947 session of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, where he stubbornly opposed every American plan to bring aid to war-devastated areas...
Leopoldov Prison in central Czechoslovakia is a 17th century fortress with walls 39 feet thick. There last December Stepan Gavenda. a tough Czech worker serving a rap for anti-Communist activity, saw a prison work detail taking bricks, sand and cement into a tunnel in the fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found...
...Secret Kept. A month later, Gavenda, veteran of 30 border crossings, dragged the exhausted Bures across the frontier into the safety of West Germany. They brought to U.S. Intelligence the first news that John Hvasta of Hillside, N.J., a Czech-born naturalized American had jumped bail. Hvasta had been snatched from his job in the U.S. consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed...