Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before, President Klement Gottwald, speaking to the Communist Party Central Committee, had charged that the party had been riddled with plotters for five years. In addition to Clementis, he named Marie Svermova, onetime second deputy secretary-general of the Czech party, and Otto Sling, former party political secretary for the Brno region...
...member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does not completely trust them.) The entire population is covered by a secret police network, fed by informers among the party members. Chief object of police...
...Czechoslovakia, musical reconstruction was booming. Program features of the Slovak Philharmonic last week: Cantata on the Communist Party, Cantata on [Communist Premier Klemenf] Gottwald, Toast to Stalin...
...daughter can benefit a rising young Communist as well as a rising young capitalist. Out of the post of Czech Minister of Defense went General Ludvik Svoboda, career soldier. Into the general's former office moved 40-year-old Dr. Alexei Cepicka, son-in-law of President Klement Gottwald. Little known before 1947, Cepicka had married Gottwald's daughter after the Communists took over the government in 1948. As Minister of Justice, the President's son-in-law had masterminded a relentless, successful fight against the church...
...succeed Clementis,Gottwald named Vilem Siroky, son of a Slovak railway worker, who had the good fortune to spend the war years in Moscow. Siroky is expected to heat up the Czech government's hostility towards the West...