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Last winter Jan Masaryk vigorously denied reports that Czechoslovakia's famed Jachymov uranium mines were still under Russian control. Last month, when foreign correspondents visited Jachymov, they were plied with spa water from its radioactive springs but not allowed anywhere near the mines. Last week Prague's Obzory said that Russian experts were "at Jachymov in 'scientific closure' " and that both Soviet and Czech troops were on guard there. Added Obzory: "It is necessary for security to renounce visits to the spa by guests from foreign lands...
Karel Suchoparek, Czechoslovakia's national director of spas, explained that he had kept foreign patients away from Jachymov only because the spa was so crowded. He added: "A small number of Russians are there as patients...
...will. But the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick change. The security police moved in, and Germans who had worked in the factory were rounded up, put back to work. Former officials of the Krizek Works were kept out. In northern Bohemia the Russians took over the Jachymov mine, famed for its uranium deposits...
From Prague came a report that the Red Army had taken control of uranium deposits at Jachymov, Czechoslovakia...
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