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With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried...
...Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words were Rodríguez...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...
...France's Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Pétain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Pétain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded the French government to allow him to be buried wearing the Médaille...
...eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek to replace democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free states into the bondage of satellites." The Cubans, led by Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós, laughed out loud. The other 19 delegations gave Rusk a standing ovation. But though the delegates stood together to applaud in the resort's converted gambling hall where Rusk spoke, they split into widely divergent groups in the negotiations that followed...