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...Communist world, a hell which Dante might have found hard to describe, a kind of diabolical retribution lurks everywhere. Rudolf Slansky was one of the main architects of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948; after that, he reached the pinnacle of power. His main rival was President Klement Gottwald, who seemed immovably imbedded, like a great rock, in the Czech party...
Less than two years ago, Slansky purged one of Gottwald's close friends and loyal followers, Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis. Last week Clementis sat on the wooden benches with Slansky-a codefendant. Less than two years ago, Slansky engineered the spy trial of the American A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (who had been trying to find out what happened to Clementis) in the same courtroom of Pankrac prison. The same judges, prosecutor and "defense attorney" who served in the Oatis case last week confronted Rudolf Slansky. So it goes in the Communist inferno...
Slansky said that he had plotted with Gottwald's doctors in an attempt on the President's life; that he had planted "French agents, British agents, American agents, Yugoslav agents," and told them the secrets of the Czech armed forces and workers' organizations. He implicated, as foreign contacts, former British M.P. Konni Zilliacus, who once fellow-traveled with Stalin and now does with Tito, and Moshe Pijade, a Jewish ideologist in the Tito regime. He said he had given important jobs to "capitalist Jewish emigrants who returned to Czechoslovakia as imperialist agents." According to the indictment...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA-Represented at the first Cominform meeting by Rudolf Slansky. A fierce, red-haired butcher's son who became the Kremlin's hatchet man in Czechoslovakia, he was considered the real power behind Klement Gottwald, front man in the coup of 1948. But in Czechoslovakia's recent struggle for power, it was Gottwald, not Slansky, who came out on top. Accused of "activities against the state" last December, Slansky was stripped of all offices. Disposition: "in custody," awaiting trial...
...switch was like to that recently carried out in Czechoslovakia, where Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky was dumped in favor of native son Clement Gottwald. But in Rumania, although arrests of minor government officers and army officers are taking place on all sides, the trouble does not yet seem serious enough to warrant a full-dress trial of the big-time scapegoats. Ana still hangs on to her job at the Org-buro, the organizational center of the Communist Party-in the shadow, but still around in case of another unpredictable change in the weather...