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...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...
...Klement Gottwald's Red-style Horatio Alger story had taken him from a Moravian carpenter's shop to Hradcany Castle and power over all Czechoslovakia. Last week his body lay in state in the castle's mirrored Spanish Hall, where Habsburgs had danced in a brighter time. The foreign source of his climb to power was never more apparent than in his funeral: the bands played Russian music; the troops used the Russian parade step and carried Russian machine pistols. The most notable mourners were Russia's Marshal Bulganin and Red China's Chou Enlai...
...committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper-he might get a boost later...