Word: lidove
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...showdown. Six thousand party workers from all across the country were called into Prague for briefings on the conferences. The press, which had been asked by the regime to tone down its anti-Soviet polemics, ran reassuring editorials. "The sovereignty of Czechoslovakia has remained and will remain untouched," wrote Lidová Demokracie, a Prague daily. Dubček, again on radio and TV, spoke to his people. "Fears about any secret deal are unfounded," he declared...
...rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper Práce. Lidová Demokracie called the story "a gross falsification of our history" and "slander...
...trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter Lidov; Engineers Nordwall & Gregory-Aaron Dolmatovski. Commented Correspondent Walter Duranty...
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