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Word: ferjencik (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Slovakia's Communist-directed Commissioner of Interior Mikulas Ferjencik. He smelled a conspiracy, and began cramming Bratislava's jails with suspected conspirators. At first, few Czechs in Prague seemed to realize that Slovakia was just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Mixture as Before | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

There were still some hurdles for Fer-jencik to take. Kempny and Bugar could not be jailed until they were stripped of parliamentary immunity. This Ferjencik called upon the National Coalition to do. The Communist coalition members could be counted on to agree. The non-Communist majority in the Government was up a tree. If they gave in, they would play into Communist hands. If they did not, they would precipitate a political split which would help nobody but the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Mixture as Before | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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