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Czech Reds had always claimed that the pro-Communist coup of February 1948 was a spontaneous uprising by the masses to thwart a reactionary conspiracy. Last week the well-worn lie, its purpose served, was discarded. With Czechoslovakia's police state well entrenched, Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger* could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland...
...other congressional races: ¶ Harlem's pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio was beaten at last-after seven terms-by lean, tough 51-year-old James G. Donovan, candidate of an unprecedented Democrat-Republican-Liberal coalition...
...introduction, the publishers stated that "the inclusion of a professor or instructor in this list is not conclusive evidence that he is a Communist. He may simply be naive. Similarly, this list does not necessarily include all Harvard professors who may be pro-Communist...
There were seven other entries in the race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...
...Chastity Belts. Freedom is not losing out everywhere. The Supreme Court of India, in its first term under the new constitution, recently struck down government attempts to ban a pro-Communist weekly and pre-censor an extremist Hindu weekly. Ruled Justice Patanjali Sastri: "Criticism of government and exciting disaffection . . . toward government cannot be regarded as justifying [censorship] of the press...