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...CZECH COMPLAINTS. Dispatched: a demand for a Czech government apology to 40-year-old Katherine Kosmak, U.S. employee of the U.S. Information Service in Prague, who swore she had been pressured by Czech police to marry a Czech fellow-worker and renounce U.S. citizenship. Received: a brusque note demanding 1) the recall of U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their...
Professor Roman Jakobson, who came from Columbia this year, is one of the world's leading philgists, and has command of most languages spoken between the Elbe and the Yangtze. His wife, Dr. Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson, teaches Czech...
Last week Wheeler called a press conference, denounced the U.S. for the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic pact and "Wall Street cartelization." To the delighted Czech press he announced that he would formally ask for asylum in Czechoslovakia, where he had "got to know the real democracy...
...radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...succeed Clementis,Gottwald named Vilem Siroky, son of a Slovak railway worker, who had the good fortune to spend the war years in Moscow. Siroky is expected to heat up the Czech government's hostility towards the West...