Word: masaryk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President implied to Prochazka that the Communists had murdered Jan Masaryk, asked for the release of U.S. Newsman William Oatis...
Author Egon Hostovsky knows his Czechoslovakia. A veteran of the Czech diplomatic service and a friend of Jan Masaryk, he quit his post as attache in Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...
...cursory examination (the light was dim), Teply found also that the heel bones were broken, apparently beaten "repeatedly, with a very heavy instrument, for example a hammer." Masaryk's hands were also marked as though he had fought desperately before death...
...body was carried back to Masaryk's apartment, with Dr. Teply following. As he passed into the building, a black automobile drew up; out stepped Vaclav Nosek, Himmler of the Red Czech regime, and Dr. Vladimir Clementis, Deputy Foreign Minister (later arrested as a Western agent). They hurried into an elevator and got to Masaryk's apartment before Teply...
...time Teply got there, they were already at work, trying to rearrange the heavy furniture and ornate rugs in the study, which showed signs of a struggle. Nosek was putting together a footstool which had a leg smashed off. Masaryk's bedroom was a shambles. The bedside table was topsy-turvy, a shattered cup and jug lay alongside, the bed was scrambled. Nosek smoothed the bed, and bearers brought in Masaryk's body. Then Interior Minister Nosek went to the window, stared into the courtyard and muttered gravely: "Suicide." Teply indiscreetly disagreed with Nosek, who ordered...