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Meanwhile the memory of Jan Masaryk still haunted Czechoslovakia. Persistent rumors whispered that Masaryk had been murdered. In Washington, Juray Slavik, former Czech ambassador to the U.S., said that Masaryk had been bludgeoned to death (after he had shot two of his assailants) and that after death his body had been dumped from his study window. Snapped Evzen Erban, Czech Minister of Social Welfare: "Fairy tales . . . Hollywood yarns...
Zapotocky's way to power had been paved by the resignation of Czechoslovakia's ailing, good-willed President Eduard Benes (TIME, June 14). While the headlines shouted the news, the Czech Communist central committee met in Prague and shuffled its front men. Into Benes' job went brash, Moscow-trained Klement Gottwald. For Gottwald it was a boot upstairs. As Premier, he had wielded real power, but the presidency was largely a figurehead's job. Zapotocky moved into the premiership...
Last week at Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech delegate to the U.N., told how the Russians were pressuring his country. All Czech envoys, "including the Ambassador to Washington," must make daily reports to the Soviet embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
...Czech men greet women by saying 'Rukullbám' (I kiss your hand) but Communists say only `Dorbý den' (Good day) and give you the back of their hand...
Vital Statistics. Age: 41 (born April 13, 1907, on a 40-acre truck farm in West St. Paul, Minn.). Ancestry: his father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother, Elsie Emma Mueller, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was six years old. Harold was the third of four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota...