Word: purger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retribution for a Purger. In the Communist world, a hell which Dante might have found hard to describe, a kind of diabolical retribution lurks everywhere. Rudolf Slansky was one of the main architects of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948; after that, he reached the pinnacle of power. His main rival was President Klement Gottwald, who seemed immovably imbedded, like a great rock, in the Czech party...
...outright. But he has used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...