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...Klement Gottwald, burly boss of Czechoslovakia, left the stresses & strains of government in Prague for a quiet vacation (of unannounced length) in the friendly Crimea...
...Heavier Yoke. After the war he went back, trusting in the Russians as firmly as he had trusted in France and Britain. The Russians, too, betrayed his optimism. When Klement Gottwald demanded power, Benes might have stopped him, but only at the risk of civil war. Benes gave in to him, as he had to Hitler...
...most important military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
Actually, it mattered little whether Jan Masaryk had been killed or been driven to kill himself; he was a casualty of the Communists. One day last week Communist President Klement Gottwald made a gesture of exorcism. The new President and his wife drove to the little cemetery where Jan Masaryk is buried beside his great father Thomas. President and Mrs. Gottwald laid red roses on Jan Masaryk's grave. But the ghost still walked...
...power had been paved by the resignation of Czechoslovakia's ailing, good-willed President Eduard Benes (TIME, June 14). While the headlines shouted the news, the Czech Communist central committee met in Prague and shuffled its front men. Into Benes' job went brash, Moscow-trained Klement Gottwald. For Gottwald it was a boot upstairs. As Premier, he had wielded real power, but the presidency was largely a figurehead's job. Zapotocky moved into the premiership...