Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Pillow. After the Czech crisis, a number of people woke up (or said they did) to what the peace was. The talk about a Western Union in Europe, which had been droning off to a snore, buzzed up again. But what the Czech crisis mainly did in the West was to increase anti-Communist sentiment, of which there was a large unused surplus already at hand...
Commenting on the student riots which followed the Communist upheaval, Professor Matthiessen reported that Czech students have a great deal to do with establishing the policy of the universities. He added that the Communist regime has not resulted in "so great a change" as the United States is led to believe...
Among the 20 students and outsiders attending the meeting was Vaclav Eduard Benes '50, grandnephew of the present Czech president. Young Benes deplored the fact that he was unable to throw any light on reactions to the new government, since his most recent letters home remained unanswered...
Excerpts from a letter from the daughter of Thomas Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia, were read at the meeting. The letter compared Czech acceptance of the Communist government to "parched lips trembling at an imaginary well, cool under the palms...
Another recently-arrived note from a Czech contact point described how Communist poice fired on demonstrating students from Prague's Charles University, and how Boy Scouts and Rotary Clubs throughout the country were disbanded...