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...Parliament three years later. In 1939 he fled from the Nazis and spent the next six years in the U.S.S.R. After the war he returned in triumph, and in 1946, when the Communists won 38% of the popular vote, he became Prime Minister. The next year, with Benes and Masaryk still in the government, Gottwald was playing the democratic, popular-front line; he tried to take Czechoslovakia into the Marshall Plan. He was summoned to Moscow and reprimanded, and changed course overnight...
Somehow he persuaded the Kremlin to forgive his error; perhaps the black mark against him was erased by the smooth and effective way in which he (with Rudolf Slansky's help) engineered the Communist coup of 1948 against worn-out Eduard Benes and disillusioned Jan Masaryk. After that, all Gottwald had to do was suppress his rivals and keep Moscow happy, both of which he managed fairly well. But Moscow has not been 100% happy, for Czechoslovakia, a highly industrialized and once prosperous nation, has been in deepening economic crises for the past five years...
...neighborhood. As soon as a crowd forms, Moore begins to orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors his speech with some phrases in the native tongue...
...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...