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...decision had not been easy for Benes. Last year, Czechs believed, he had suffered from a partial stroke; he had largely recovered from that, but he was almost alone, and very tired. In his letter of resignation to Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, Benes thanked the people of Czechoslovakia for "their trust and love." Then he said: "I believe in the good sense of our people, and I believe in a beautiful future for our beloved republic...
...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...
...other speech was by Czechoslovak Prime Minister and Communist Boss Klement Gottwald; it was filled with cynical distortions and unconcealed hate. Said he: "I can prove to you that Jan Masaryk clearly and without compromise agreed with the action program of the new government. . . . This was his unforgivable sin in the eyes of the enemies of the republic. We have seen for ourselves how the press of the West started an organized campaign against Jan Masaryk...
Prague was a city of fear, despair, and the dreaded swish of the iron brooms that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had put in the hands of his action committees...
First of all, the Communist-dominated government does not represent the will of the people. Klement Gottwald, the Premier, spent the war in Moscow while the Czech government in exile in London was valiantly resisting Nazi aggression. He was one of the original signers of the abolition of the Comintern in 1943. Some of the other signers were Togliatti, Dimintrov, Pauker, Tito, Thorez, and all other Communist puppet leaders today...