Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week got on with the job of robbing them of their money. The operation was neatly done-in three stages. First, Radio Prague boomed: "All state loans after 1945 and securities issued after 1945 are declared worthless." This meant that workers forced to put their savings into the Czech version of "E" bonds now hold worthless paper, a total of about...
...turned loose forthwith, leaving only 14,500 unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...freeing Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, the Czech Communists put their best propaganda foot forward. Oatis was released, the Czechs announced, because of a pleading letter from his wife. Last week the White House gave out the true story. Two months ago, President Eisenhower wrote a letter to Czech President Antonin Zapotocky, pointing out that the U.S. would consider easing up the economic squeeze on Czechoslovakia only if Oatis was freed from his ten-year sentence on an espionage charge. Wrote Ike: "If your government will release Mr. Oatis . . . the United States Government . . . is prepared to negotiate . . . the issues arising...
...that Oatis was convicted of violating could be used to send any newsman to jail at the whim of the Reds. Says the Czech law and penal code: "He who attempts to obtain state secrets with the intention of betraying them to a foreign power [is guilty of espionage] . . . By a state secret is meant a fact [of] political, military or economic interest [which] should remain concealed . . . By economic secret is meant everything . . . important for economic enterprise . . . that should be kept secret." In short, Oatis was guilty of espionage if he tried to check the location or output...
Married. Jaroslav Drobny, 31, self-exiled (1949) Czech tennis champion; and Mrs. Rita Anderson, English-born U.S. tennis star often paired with Drobny in European mixed-doubles tournaments; he for the first time, she for the second; in Ealing, England...