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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around the Bloc | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...right to know when he is dealing with a policeman, and when he is not. A Czech liberal noted recently that one of the first signs of democratization in his country was that all the police were wearing uniforms again. Obviously, the use of undercover police in Czechslovakia has been far more oppressive and less restricted than in America. But when a young man is sent to Federal penitentiary for agreeing to sell marijuana to an insistent hippie-policeman, or when a pseudo-member of a Columbia radical group suddenly flashes his badge and arrests the group's leader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plainclothes | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...from spending the majority of his time in study, as many of the others do, this political refugee from Czechslovakia is constantly in search of outside interests--and if girls are involved, so much the better...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: 7 Displaced Persons End 1st Year | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

...Mussolini is a good actor, but one can't go on acting forever. His gestures lead everybody to talk about him, and for this reason the world believes that he is a great man. There are several great men in the world today. Masaryk has done great things for Czechslovakia Hindenburg has proved himself not only a great soldier, but a perfect statesman. Hoover was responsible for the relief of Belgium during the great war, and Edison is still alive, accomplishing great things. They do not possess the same histrionic gifts as Mussolini. This is why we do not hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Italy in Economic Crisis Tired of Histrionic Mussolini," States Salvemini--"Relations With Vatican are Not Friendly" | 2/21/1930 | See Source »

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