Word: prochazka
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
Later, correspondents crowded about Prochazka in the lobby. Did he and the President discuss the Oatis case? Said Prochazka: "No comment." Did they shake hands? "Yes, of course," said Prochazka. "What do you mean...
...What do you mean?" demanded a reporter. "It's a simple question." In a stampede of reporters and photographers, the pale, bespectacled Prochazka climbed into a limousine and escaped...
...summons to the office of Secretary Acheson. He was there 29 minutes. That conversation was also reported at second hand. Secretary and ambassador discussed the Oatis case; Acheson made it emphatically clear that he did not understand the attitude of the Czech government. Once again, outside the office, Prochazka was confronted by belligerent reporters. One of his aides shouted: "Is the ambassador going to be restrained by force?" To questions about Oatis, Ambassador Prochazka said angrily: "From the juridical point of view [the case] is closed. We will not be influenced by any kind of pressure, economic, political or propaganda...