Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the Czech newspaper Svobodne Slovo, now aptly retitled Nova Politika, does not mean "Free World" [TIME, March 8], but "Free Word." It is because the "Free Word" has ceased to exist in my country, not only as a newspaper but mainly as a means of expression, that I have resigned my position of Czechoslovak consul in New York City...
...there has been no direct censorship or expulsion of U.S. correspondents from Czechoslovakia. Will Lang, of TIME Inc.'s Berlin bureau, who covered the coup, cabled that before he left Prague his Czech friends had already begun to avoid him, saying it would be unwise for them to be seen with an American any more...
...reminders: 1) in Parliament, right and center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...
...suffering of millions of people is beyond comprehension. Wisely, this story focuses on just two individual samples of it-a Czech mother (Metropolitan Soprano Jarmila Novotna*) and her little boy (Ivan Jandl, who was "discovered" in a Prague radio station...
...Whose husband's estate was confiscated by the new Communist-dominated Czech government last fortnight...