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...London in World War II, he went to Moscow. There he lived for six years in a special compound reserved for the elite among foreign Communists. He became a better Muscovite than a Czech, which made him a fine teammate for another graduate of the special compound, Klement Gottwald...
...Gottwald was amiable, good at fooling nonCommunists, an effective front man. But he had to be watched. It was Gottwald who almost put Czechoslovakia into the Marshall Plan in 1947 and had to go to Moscow a few days later for a dressing down. Slansky was never popular in Czechoslovakia. He became the behind-the-scenes man, ran the party apparatus as its secretary general...
...Because we love you [President Gottwald], because we love the great Generalissimo Stalin, and because we know you are leading us to a happy future." This was the reason, according to official Czech propaganda, why 77 involuntary passengers on the famed Freedom Train to Germany (TIME, Sept. 24) returned voluntarily to Czechoslovakia...
Still in power, until further notice: Czech President Element Gottwald...
...From all the evidence, Stalin has no intention of treating Mao Tse-tung as a Gottwald or of mistaking China for Czechoslovakia. China is different not only because of her size, but because she has her own army and police. This fact, as Tito's Yugoslavia showed, may indeed encourage defection from Moscow. But the same fact also works to make Stalin particularly careful to prevent another Titoist split, which would be a major calamity for World Communism. By all appearances, the Russians have encouraged Communist China to believe that it enjoys a special status, have given Peking some...