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...government apology to 40-year-old Katherine Kosmak, U.S. employee of the U.S. Information Service in Prague, who swore she had been pressured by Czech police to marry a Czech fellow-worker and renounce U.S. citizenship. Received: a brusque note demanding 1) the recall of U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their side), along with a counterdemand for the shutdown...
...request of a Czechoslovakian Foreign Office official, the portrait of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary (TIME, Feb. 14) was withdrawn. Its presence there, said the official, was "an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia." This week U. S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek had more to say about the gesture...
...Press Attache Joseph Kolarek explained the change. A Czech Foreign Office official had called him up and said: "Mindszenty is a criminal. Having his picture in the window is an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia...
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