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...rewrote his book four times. When U.S. and British publishers continued to ignore his Union Now, he finally contracted to have the "doggone manuscript" printed at his own expense in France. In the midst of the 1938 Czech crisis, Clarence Streit's plan to save the world went into type...
...Czechoslovakia's Parliament in 1935), Clementis had aroused the Kremlin's ire several times. In 1939, he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact; ordered to Moscow to explain this, he refused to go. Instead, he spent the war years in London with Jan Masaryk and the liberal Czech government in exile...
When Clementis, apparently back in the good graces of the party, was chief of the Czech delegation to the U.N. at Lake Success last fall, rumors that he was'about to be purged began to circulate. He was warned by friends not to go back. Last week when the purge rumor became fact U.S. friends of amiable, stocky Vladimir Clementis thought that he had returned to Prague because i) he thought he could straighten out his relations with the Russians and 2) he was too proud to admit that he had been wrong in becoming their puppet...
What I tried to express was my belief that not all Czech music is great music. As a Czech, I could hardly dismiss such composers as Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu...
...drift was continental. Luxury shops in Rio's narrow Rua do Ouvidor featured Czech china, Danish porcelain, Italian pottery. British cars rolled along the boulevards. In Argentina, U.S. goods had all but disappeared. Across the river in Uruguay, the trade trend to Europe also ran strongly. There, where three years ago the U.S. supplied almost half of all imported goods, the British and the Germans had seized the lead. By the terms of a January agreement, Uruguay will buy $70 million worth of goods, perhaps one-third of its 1950 needs, from Germany. The Uruguayan deal was the biggest...