Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk jumped or was thrown to his death from a third-floor window. Last week, Czechoslovakia's President Gottwald "accepted the resignation" of Masaryk's successor, Vladimir dementis, who now faces the unhealthy future of a Communist purgee...
...demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...