Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspect any place in Korea at any time by land or air. The Communists, however, refused to permit free inspection of their territory. They compromised by permitting truce teams to operate in five specified check points. The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is made up of Swiss, Swedes, Poles and Czechs. The first two nations make a basic policy of neutralism; the second two are outright Communist puppets. On the truce commission, Polish and Czech members help sabotage the neutrals' efforts to enforce the truce terms...
...Prague, where President Antonin Zapotocky himself attended the games, the arena was packed with Heroes of Labor, Deserving Teachers of the People, Communist Activists. Cheers for the Canadians were diffident, and the game was rough. Czechs, who object to the Canadians' enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing...
...dark street corners, citizens sidled up to the Canadians and whispered: "Beat the Russians! Canada good, America good." One of the Vs stopped to ask directions from a Prague burgher. He got a bawling out in reply. "Why didn't you beat us twice?" complained the Czech. Then he wagged a stubby finger. "You beat the Russians," he ordered...
...vanished. Then another Field was reported missing: Erika, Noel's adopted daughter. Released last October after five years in a Polish prison, Hermann Field spent a month "convalescing" in Poland, then continued resting in Switzerland. According to him, the Poles had misconstrued his efforts in 1939 to help Czechs fleeing from the Nazis "as part of a British-American plan to subvert the postwar Czech regime." Last month, said Field, the apologetic Polish Communists paid him a $50,000 indemnity, plus $1,500 to cover his convalescence bills...
...SELF-BETRAYED, by Joseph Wechsberg (301 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). Czech-born Author Wechsberg often patrols the same prose beat as Tyrolean-born Ludwig Bemelmans; on it the major misdemeanors are underdone Wiener Schnitzel and overdone Central European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a somber, loose-jointed documentary on the rise and fall of a big party wheel in Communist Czechoslovakia. Wechsberg's Communist hero-heel is named Bruno Stern, but his career closely parallels that of the late Rudolf Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged...