Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realistically, CRS is two states, Slovakia and the Czech combination of Bohomia and Moravia. I don't know much about Slovakia-haven't been there-except that it in a rather rural, backward area, dominated strongly by the Church. During the war, the Germans, trying to divide the republic during the occupation, feted the Slovaks with all kinds of food and materials, and people being naturally conservative, they look back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide...
...Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...Czech In. The first postwar Tatra (Czechoslovak) automobile to reach the U.S. went on display in Manhattan. Low-slung, and fitted with a sliding sedan top, the Tatra has its air-cooled engine in the rear and a cyclops-eye headlight in addition to the usual two in front. Czechoslovakia's nationalized auto industry is producing the car at the rate of 3,000 a year, promises delivery in six weeks. Price: $6,200, plus...
Salzmann pointed to the Czech law which requires that every adult vote or face trial and the recent elections which U.S. observers declared "completely free" as showing the democratic spirit in Czechoslovakia...
...bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist-dominated Czech Cabinet meekly handed three of them over to the Polish secret police. Of the four Polish refugees still held by the Czechs, one was Baginski, the last of the famous...