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...humiliation of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček has been thoroughly documented from the days in August 1968 when he was held captive in Moscow to his firing as Prague's ambassador to Turkey and his expulsion from the Communist Party two weeks ago. Less well known but no less poignant has been the plight of Dubček's attractive blonde wife Anna...
...Just as Dubček frequently found himself in the watchful company of the Soviet ambassador while in Turkey, so Anna was in the constant charge of the ambassador's wife. The wife of one Western ambassador recalls that when Anna paid her first official call, this uninvited "companion" sat, silent but attentive, through the visit. When the Western diplomat's wife repaid the call at the Czechoslovak embassy, she discovered the Soviet ambassador's wife sitting in a room within earshot of the main salon...
Last month Dubček suddenly left Ankara for Prague, ostensibly to visit his 80-year-old mother, who is hospitalized with a serious heart ailment. There was another reason for his recall. Dubček was spotted as he slipped into the party's massive brownstone quarters overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. He was reportedly subjected to grilling by a purge commission, and asked to recant his role in the 1968 reforms. He refused. Then he was asked to resign from the party. Again he refused. For Dubček, who remains a loyal Communist, the ordeal...
...Prague's ornate Hradcany castle, the eleven-man Party Presidium, which is now dominated by the ultras, last week fired Dubček as ambassador. The news of his ouster reached Ankara through the Soviet communications network. The Czechoslovak charge d'affaires was summoned to the Russian embassy to learn of Dubček's dismissal. Late last week a far heavier blow fell on Dubček. The Central Committee expelled him from his 32-year membership in the Communist Party, an act that relegated him to the limbo status of an unperson...
Unfortunately, Dubček's ordeal may not yet be ended. An ominous press campaign is now accusing him of having accepted bribes, ruined the economy and undermined the military's morale. In Czechoslovak newspapers, he is now referred to only as A. Dubček, a stylistic form that in recent weeks has been applied to prominent persons already charged with crimes against the state. Some Czechoslovaks fear that Dubček may yet be subjected to the first East Bloc show trials since the Stalinist purge of 1952, when two Czechoslovak Politburo members went...