Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school for young nobles under the Habsburgs and a Gestapo court under the Nazis. Last week it had a new tenant. Out of its modernized office suites walked mousy-looking Social Democrat Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, to be Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia. In came tough-looking Communist Vice Premier Klement Gottwald to be Premier...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
...Gottwald's Communists set the crushing wheels of their party machine in motion. Bratislava's workers paralyzed the whole city in a general strike, noisily demanded that Conservative election gains in Slovakia be scratched. Slovaks were beginning to learn that Communists, even if defeated at the polls, have ways of continuing the fight...
...Middle Way. Czechoslovakia's political arena is limited to four parties: 1) the Communists, led by stout, pipe-smoking Deputy Prime Minister Klement Gottwald, 48, an exile in Moscow between 1939 and 1945; 2) the Social Democrats, led by mousy, opportunistic Prime Minister Fierlinger, 54; 3) the Socialists, led by Dr. Benes; and 4) the People's (Catholic) Party, led by portly, colorful, progressive Monsignor Jan Sramek, 75, ex-Prime Minister and now Deputy Prime Minister...