Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable place name of World War II turned up in the news again. The town was Lidice, which Hitler chose at random to avenge the assassination by Czech patriots of Reinhard ("the Hangman...
Behind the Iron Curtain, a Mimeographed bulletin published by Josef Josten, a Czech refugee editor. If, as suspected, Communists were the thieves, they had good cause to fear Editor Josten's tiny bulletin. In three years, his "Free Czech Information" service has proved uncannily accurate on what is happening, and about to happen, behind Russia's curtain...
...Editor Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...
...papers found his bulletins so reliable that the Manchester Guardian quoted them in one of its famed "leaders," the Times used them as tips for its own correspondents, and the Daily Telegraph began front-paging Josten "beats" with full credit (e.g., news of the Russian's slave-labor Czech uranium mine...
...Target. Josten's bulletin has 600 subscribers in 42 countries (rate, with full reproduction rights, is $22.40 a year) ; it brings him a modest living and enables him and his wife to employ three full-time staffers. They work by reading between the lines of Czech "official" news, monitoring Prague broadcasts, winnowing the news from their informers. In turn, the informers pass the bulletin into Czechoslovakia where each copy, read behind locked doors, passes through scores of hands. As a result, when nine Czech airmen flew a passenger-filled airliner out of Prague in a sensational escape, a girl...