Word: klement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...fled to 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...
...rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald, for example. It was entirely possible that before long, Rudolf and Klement would be teammates again-in disgrace...
...Alsops' clincher: "Imagine, then, that Klement Gottwald, Communist President of satellite Czechoslovakia, suddenly announces 'the Gottwald theory of revolution,' hailing his 'theory' as the greatest contribution to Marxist doctrine since Lenin's death" (which Mao does not say even in the Alsops' column...