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...preparation of a new war by the Anglo-American bloc." Was he going to retire? Quipped white-haired Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys was at hand. Five minutes before the train was due to leave, U.N. Czech Delegate Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova came breathlessly galloping down the platform of the cavernous Gare de l'Est, thrust a Cellophane box of orchids into Vishinsky's hand...
Iron Curtain, whose first issue was distributed to 3,800 newsmen, professors, Government officials, etc., attempts to report on shifts in Communist politics, economics and cultural affairs. Among its effective items are the cynical stories and wisecracks being whispered behind the Iron Curtain. In one story, Czech Communist Leader Antonin Zapotocky looks at his portrait on the wall and says: "You're very well off up here, aren't you?" "Yes," answers the picture, "but I don't believe it can last too much longer . . . They will take me down and hang...
...body was carried back to Masaryk's apartment, with Dr. Teply following. As he passed into the building, a black automobile drew up; out stepped Vaclav Nosek, Himmler of the Red Czech regime, and Dr. Vladimir Clementis, Deputy Foreign Minister (later arrested as a Western agent). They hurried into an elevator and got to Masaryk's apartment before Teply...
...Ousted Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky is still awaiting trial in Prague for crimes vaguely described as "activities against the state." Last week a clearer picture of the crimes, and of a growing Communist crusade, emerged from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to national pride which might have stemmed from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews...
...History Unveiled. Then the script changed. Slansky did not disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...