Word: karel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining had been done by the Yugoslavs, Shawcross argued that Albania was responsible for what happened in her territorial waters. His star witness was a former Yugoslav naval officer, Karel Kovacic, who had seen mine-laden Yugoslav ships leave the Sibenik naval base, he said, a few days before the British ships struck the mines...
...General Karel Janousek, wartime commander of the Czech air force in Britain, was condemned to death for treason when he tried to flee the country. (The sentence was commuted to 18 years at hard labor.) Seventeen other Czech air force men managed to escape to Britain in a "borrowed" plane...
...Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...
...commission talked back. Britain's warning that commissioners could not be protected if they came before May 1, it said, was "not satisfactory." Chairman Karel Lisicky, of Czechoslovakia, was considerably more explicit: "Britain is responsible for law and order so long as the mandatory regime is there. If we come in before May 15 [when the mandate ends], they are directly responsible for our safety...
...chairman of the five-nation U.N. Palestine Commission, Czechoslovakia's big, bespectacled Karel Lisicky, said disconsolately to his four colleagues, "Nobody can expect miracles from five lonely pilgrims who at this moment have nothing but the U.N. flag, and perhaps this gavel as well, as all their means for enforcing [the partition] resolution...