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...espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some urgent, unfinished business. Here, he told Gottwald in effect...
...Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution...
Czechoslovakia's Communist government decided to purge fairy tales from children's reading. Official replacement for Prince Charming as a schoolbook hero: President Klement Gottwald...
...doubt," the minister went on, "that today anyone who . . . tries in any way to carry out the Vatican's orders commits treason against the vital principles of his own state and people." Cepicka lists himself officially as a Catholic. He is a son-in-law of Communist Boss Klement Gottwald...
Favorite target of Prague wits is the plump, unlearned wife of Premier Klement Gottwald. They say she met a friend who twittered: "We are going tonight to the Marriage of Figaro. Will you be there...