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...days after they were condemned, Rudolf Slansky, Vladimir Clementis and nine other alleged Communist fomenters of "Zionist" and "Jewish nationalism" went to the gallows.* As dutifully as they had confessed to all manner of errors and evil, they had waived their right of appeal. They went to their deaths in the same grim Pankrac prison where they were tried...
Next day, in the courtroom of Prague's Pankrac prison, sentence was pronounced. Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky, onetime secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party was condemned to death by hanging. So was Vladimir Clementis, onetime Foreign Minister, who left the safety of the U.N. to return home, and was double-crossed when he got there. Nine others would also be hanged on some lonely dawn. Three of the accused were let off with life imprisonment on the ground that they had been forced to take orders from higher-ups. Said Prague's official Communist organ, Rude Pravo...
...reality a loyal Communist hatchet-man since early youth, Rudolf Slansky and 13 co-defendants were on trial last week in a courtroom of Prague's grim old Pankrac prison. The unhappy 14 stood up while a 14,000-word indictment was read against them. Then, one by one, they "confessed." They were broken, half-dead men, but they had been left with enough wit to repeat the intricate fables, involving dozens of well-known names inside & outside Czechoslovakia, which their merciless interrogators had impressed upon them. There were no non-Communist newsmen in Prague, much less...
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...
...years ago, Slansky engineered the spy trial of the American A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (who had been trying to find out what happened to Clementis) in the same courtroom of Pankrac prison. The same judges, prosecutor and "defense attorney" who served in the Oatis case last week confronted Rudolf Slansky. So it goes in the Communist inferno...