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Conspicuous among the grim, worried satellite leaders who journeyed to Moscow for Stalin's funeral was Klement Gottwald, 56, President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ceremonies; only Chou En-lai of Red China stood closer. Although, in Moscow's view, Gottwald was merely a tried and trusty puppet, to the Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged...
...people of Czechoslovakia (and the world) were alerted in a series of meticulously detailed bulletins, interspersed with solemn music-a pattern in close imitation of Moscow's handling of Stalin's death. At last came the death bulletin, with assurances that, "to save the life of Klement Gottwald, all was done that could be done by human power," and that "Comrade Gottwald fought for his life almost until the last moment while fully conscious," and with a warning: "There must be no weakness or panic in our ranks. Let us rally even closer around the Central Committee...
...himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could dispose of him. From Warsaw came Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Russian whom all Reds hold out to be a Pole to excuse his running the Polish Defense Ministry and, through that, Poland itself; also from Warsaw came President...
...Klement Gottwald...
...Klement Gottwald and the younger men in his group-Prime Minister Zapotocky, Foreign Minister Siroy, Defense Minister Cepika (Gottwald's son-in-law) -knew they had had a narrow escape, that their turn might come any time. Truly they are, in Slansky's words, men of two faces. One face is turned toward the brazen sun of power and privilege, the other toward the abyss on whose brink they stand...