Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
...Czech officials insist there will not be a war. So do the Soviets, and I think they will be very careful to avoid the responsibility for war . . . There does, however, seem to be some Czech urgency in preparing for a possible conflict. . . Czech heavy industry is now working mostly for the Russians, producing not finished articles but certain parts that will fit into armament...
...Popular. The dreary ideological arguments in the Tito controversy have no bearing on the real nature of the rift. Tito's failure to collectivize the peasants, for instance, is matched by the Polish, Czech and Rumanian Communist parties, none of which have collectivization programs. Yet these parties seem to be in good odor with Zhdanov and his Cominform...
...charge of nationalism against Tito is a different matter. That one is true, and it is precisely the point where Tito's party is much more closely akin to the Russian party than the Czech, Hungarian, French, British or U.S. Communist parties...
...Pagodas. The son of a poor Czech goldsmith, Oskar Kokoschka briefly earned a living decorating fans and postcards, or betting U.S. tourists he could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...