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...Western nations had scores of possible answers to the Czech move. Instead of getting France to join last week in the kind of protest note that helped Hitler to power, France might have been induced to stop stalling on the question of Western German industry. Two U.S. Army divisions to Greece-with orders to clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace...
...occupation, when BBC broadcasts brought Czechoslovakia's only hope of freedom.) Mass arrests continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed even at this...
...Third Day. At 9:30 a.m. Premier Gottwald called on President Benes at Hradcany Castle to present a list of the new cabinet ministers (twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could...
...Bridge (though their ranks were thinned). Police with Tommy guns emerged from the shadows of the massive castle walls. An officer ordered the students to step back ten paces; the students fell back. "Twenty paces!" cried the officer. This time the students did not budge. They started singing the Czech national anthem...
First of all, the Communist-dominated government does not represent the will of the people. Klement Gottwald, the Premier, spent the war in Moscow while the Czech government in exile in London was valiantly resisting Nazi aggression. He was one of the original signers of the abolition of the Comintern in 1943. Some of the other signers were Togliatti, Dimintrov, Pauker, Tito, Thorez, and all other Communist puppet leaders today...