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...years, Lidove Noviny (People's News) was Czechoslovakia's best newspaper, often favorably compared with the New York Times. Politically independent, the paper built up a large staff of foreign correspondents and a list of notable contributors (Thomas Mann, Winston Churchill, Karel Capek, Leon Blum). At the peak of its influence in the '20s and '30s, the Lidove Noviny had a circulation of 80,000 and always made money...
Into office as Kopriva's successor went tough, 55-year-old Karel Bacilek, Moscow-trained son of a Slovak bricklayer, and former Minister of State Control, i.e., Big Brother to all Czech industry. Bacilek's appointment seemed to indicate a new Kremlin policy in Czechoslovakia. Disturbed by the Czechs' failure to deliver their quota of weapons and equipment to the Red army, the Kremlin is getting rid of men like Slansky and Kopriva, who were good Communist theoreticians but sloppy administrators, and replacing them with lesser-known Communists who know how to get things done...
...Arrived this week: Jaroslav Konvalinka and Karel Truksa, engineer and dispatcher, respectively of the Czech train which made a dash for freedom across the border into Western Germany (TIME, Sept. 24). At the invitation of Lawrence Cowen, president of Lionel Corp., they will settle with their families in Irvington, N.J., work in Lionel's toy-train plant...
...Wife Snubbed. When the express stopped at Pilsen, Karel Truksa, a husky railroader, got on. Two years ago he had been stationmaster at Asch, a mile from the German border. The Communists had found two men hiding in his house "without documents," and Truksa spent five months in a concentration camp. Now he had only a small job at the station in Eger (Cheb...
...post as party general secretary to Vice Premier, which may or may not mean that he was kicked upstairs; 3) abolished the Ministry of Heavy Industry, spread its functions among five new ministries; 4) set up a new all-powerful Ministry of State Control, headed by a relative unknown, Karel Bacilek, 54, veteran Communist member...