Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
...sycophantically sang Stalin's praise alive now scorned him dead. Chunky, jug-eared Khrushchev set the tone for this as for everything else when, in a perfunctory tribute to comrades who had died since the last congress, he disdainfully lumped together in one sentence "J. V. Stalin, Klement Gottwald and Kyuichi Tokuda." Stalin's theories about Communism were also cavalierly rewritten...
...which the Chinese Nationalists have tried to impose on mainland ports since 1949 with destroyers and patrol vessels given them by the U.S. In Kaohsiung, too, were two other recent prizes-the 8,207-ton Polish tanker Praca, seized last October, and the 5,958-ton Polish freighter Prezydent Gottwald, seized...
...live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung up pictures of the imperialist agent Benes [the last non-Communist President]. The American gangsters stepped on pictures of Stalin and Gottwald and violated the Soviet flag. The archives in the town hall were burned...
...Czechs, said Oatis, told him that "a letter my wife wrote to the President of Czechoslovakia had a great deal to do with it." From St. Paul, where she is an ad copywriter in a department store, Laurabelle Oatis had indeed written a pleading letter to the late President Gottwald seven months ago: "At the time [he left for Czechoslovakia] we had only been married three months . . . We married because we wanted to spend our lives together. Yet the days go by ... Surely there must be some way in which you . . . can commute his sentence to expulsion from Czechoslovakia...