Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: His father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year...
...great crime against the Czechoslovak people, and I therefore face this trial before the people and the world. I have been an enemy of the Communist Party, and I created a conspiratorial movement to split the party. I also worked similarly within the army right back to the first Czech rising in 1942, when I was active against the interests of the Soviet Union and on behalf of the Benes regime. I am a person with two political faces. In reality, I have never been a Communist...
...describe, a kind of diabolical retribution lurks everywhere. Rudolf Slansky was one of the main architects of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948; after that, he reached the pinnacle of power. His main rival was President Klement Gottwald, who seemed immovably imbedded, like a great rock, in the Czech party...
...along Route Coloniale 11 in his tank, far in advance of his column. "Return at once," ordered his superior officer by the radio. "Give me five minutes more," said Marion. In that five minutes the young French reservist uncovered a Communist arms dump: 200 tons of American, Chinese, Japanese, Czech and French weapons, including 1,000 rifles, 60 submachine guns, 22 machine guns, 51 bazookas, 114 mortars, and three Russian-made trucks...
Prague Radio proudly announced that Czech Track Star Emil Zatopek, who despite his eccentric, floppy running style shattered three Olympic records, had become a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. Emil, whose Olympic feats have already won him a promotion from captain to major, and selection as representative to the December "World Peace Congress" in Vienna, decided to drop over to the track in Houstka. northern Bohemia, and celebrate the big news. Major Zatopek's latest exhibition records, according to Prague: 15 miles, run in 1 hr. 16:26.4; 25 kilometers in 1 hr. 19:21.8; 30 kilometers...