Word: prochazka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist rulers on a trumped-up charge of espionage, the U.S. has contented itself with a few murmurs of protest through diplomatic channels. Last week Harry Truman got his first chance since the Oatis arrest to meet a ranking official of the Czech government face to face. Vladimir Prochazka, recently appointed Czech ambassador, arrived at the White House to present his credentials...
Outside in the rain, a picket line of antiCommunist Czechs marched-as they had marched when Prochazka arrived in New York (TIME, Aug. 20)-carrying such signs as, "How dare you come to a free country with blood dripping from your hands?" Prochazka, a tough, doctrinaire Communist behind his mild, owl-eyed front, was with the President five minutes. The dialogue was described later by White House Press Chief Joe Short (who got it from the President...