Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
There would be quite a few empty chairs. Finland was the first country to turn down "provisionally" the invitation to Paris. Other disappointed satellites would follow. Czechoslovakia and Poland, however, wriggled restively in Mother Russia's embrace. Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Klement Gottwald prepared to journey to Moscow for advice...
Sunday, the 17th of August, 1946, tricolored Congressus flags were flying over the Kolej. Prime Minister Gottwald and top cabinet officials turned out to pay tribute to the occasion. After a colorful opening ceremony in the ornate House of Arts and Music, the Congress moved to the more businesslike conference rooms of the Kolej. Within its confines, we were to work and eat, and occasionally sleep for the next two weeks...
...self-educated farmer's son (who has a vast repertory of Czech folk songs, wears caps instead of hats and loves his family), Gottwald had worked and waited for this moment. There was no doubt about how the new tenant would like to run things. Communist Gottwald's philosophy of politics might well have been inspired by the words of St. Clement (Rome's fourth Pope), after whom his pious family had named him: "Discipline and subordination are necessary as in an army . . . for man is nothing...
...Comrade Gottwald would have to go a little easy. Although in the new Cabinet the Communists kept their old key posts of Interior, Information and Labor, in addition to the premiership, their only new portfolios were Finance and Internal Commerce, two difficult spots in view of Czechoslovakia's strained economic situation. Middle-of-the-road National Socialists remained strong partly because President Eduard Benes, grand, not very old (62) man of Czechoslovakia, belongs to their party. Jan Masaryk, an Independent, keeps the Foreign Affairs Ministry...