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Zapotocky's way to power had been paved by the resignation of Czechoslovakia's ailing, good-willed President Eduard Benes (TIME, June 14). While the headlines shouted the news, the Czech Communist central committee met in Prague and shuffled its front men. Into Benes' job went brash, Moscow-trained Klement Gottwald. For Gottwald it was a boot upstairs. As Premier, he had wielded real power, but the presidency was largely a figurehead's job. Zapotocky moved into the premiership...
Rather than serve the new masters of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk had gone to his death. This week, in his own way, ailing, 64-year-old Eduard Benes made his choice, too. He resigned as President of the republic-just one day before he would have had to approve the new Soviet-style constitution which makes his country another "Peoples' Republic...
...tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...
...without troubles. Eighteen Jewish musicians were expelled, and Conductor Mengelberg toasted Hitler, played often for Nazi audiences. Today almost all the expelled musicians are back, and Mengelberg, now 77, is retired in Switzerland. The man who has reconstructed the Concertgebouw is black-haired, 47-year-old Eduard van Beinum, who, after learning under Mengelberg for 17 years, is fast becoming one of Europe's ablest conductors...
Britten: Peter Grimes Excerpts (The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Amsterdam's orchestra, possibly Europe's best, puts salt and spray into the four sea interludes and passacaglia from Britten's opera (TIME, Feb. 16). Performance: excellent...