Word: papousek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People ask me, why have you been so optimistic?" says Papousek. "But really, Russia could have done nothing else but back down from her threats. She is too clever to make the mistake the United States made in Vietnam. The situations are very similar, and world reaction would be the same...
...Papousek is a pediatrician. He serves on the staff of the Research Institute for Mother and Child Care, which is operated in Prague by the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Health. This summer he is teaching and researching at Harvard at the invitation of Jerome Bruner, professor of Psychology here...
...Papousek speaks quietly, and does not strike a listener as a man of passionate political beliefs; after all, he is expert only on children. But his nationalism runs strong; he gets proud and excited talking of the Czechs, while he shakes his head in admiration...
...lack of bitterness towards Russia is therefore surprising, and from the stories he tells, his countrymen seem to feel the same way. Americans don't realize, says Papousek, that Czechoslovakia and Russia have been friendly for centuries...
During the 30's, newly-independent Czechoslovakia turned her face westward as well; to meet the Fascist threat she signed mutual defense pacts with England and France. Then Munich happened, in 1938, and once again Russia became the only recourse. Russian troops liberated Papousek's nation in 1945, and three years later the Czechs democratically elected a communist president...