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...baggage. Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked the U.S., replied: "We have hotels in Moscow just as good as the Waldorf-but not as tall...
German authorities reported that they had been arrested by Czech police for illegally crossing the border, and were being held in jail behind the Iron Curtain. U.S. officials were refused the right to visit them. The U.S. embassy at Prague protested repeatedly, and its protests were either ignored or evaded. Three months went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard...
Professor Jakobson, who will teach in the field of Slavic philology and advanced literature, holds degrees from the Universities of Moscow and Prague. He is the author of over 200 books and articles on Russian, Czech and Slovak language, literature, and folklore...
...Czech newsmen's congress was told that to make the Czechoslovakian press "perfect," all but one of these would be necessary...
...December, Robert B. Jung, a Berlin-born Czech who is a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground, started a new publication in Manhattan which will specialize...