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...TASTE OF POWER by Ladislav Mnacko. 235 pages. Praeger...
Last week a significant crack occurred in that system with the German-language publication in the West of The Taste of Power, by the Slovak writer Ladislav Mňačko. Although his book has not been published in Czechoslovakia, Mňačko, 47, made no attempt to crawl under cover. Setting a precedent for a "protest" novel, he dealt personally with Austrian Publisher Fritz Molden, expects his book to appear before long throughout Europe...
...About your story on Czechoslovak films [July 29]: Though you mention The Shop on Main Street, you ignore the film's author, Ladislav Grossman. Mr. Grossman, my childhood friend and schoolmate, wrote the story on the basis of very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly...
Commissar Ladislav Kopriva, the man behind many Czech purges, likes to philosophize. Last November, after jailing Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky for "antistate activities," Kopriva said: "Our Czechoslovak traitors . .. can be compared with Russia's Trotsky ... Our conspiracies are not extraordinary, but only further evidence that our country is subject to the same laws of socialistic development as the Soviet Union...
...Cominform in Bucharest or directly from Moscow. Most notable member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does not completely trust them.) The entire population is covered by a secret police network...