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This month the regime surprised everyone when it permitted the journal Literdrni Noviny to pay tribute to Thomas Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President, on the 30th anniversary of his death; to the Communists, Masaryk had previously been an unperson. The party has been far less gracious toward writers like Ladisla Mňaċko, author of the novel The Taste of Power. It took away Mňaċko's Czechoslovakian citizenship when he dared to go to Israel in protest against the government's pro-Arab policy in the recent Middle Eastern...
Died. Alice Masaryk, 87, daughter of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and sister of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk (who mysteriously fell to his death from a window in Prague shortly after Communists seized power), herself a notable figure in her homeland as head of the Czech Red Cross before World War II when she fled to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Chicago...
Monica's Czech Restaurant, Inverness, Calif. On a hillside overlooking Tomales Bay. Owner Milan Prokupek was an official in Masaryk's government, fled the Communists in 1948. Excellent Czech food. Inexpensive...
...Stalin push for respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...
Flying home to Chicago to receive the Czechoslovak National Council of America's Masaryk Award for "inspired leadership in the cause of freedom," Illinois' snow-topped Senator Paul H. Douglas, 69, conclusively proved that a lifelong devotion to the "dismal science" of economics need not make a man as stuffy as a Cook County ballot box. Extending a glad hand and a twinkly toe to a comely procession of native-costumed constituents, the old Marine hero determinedly fought his way through the intricate steps of a beseda...