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Commissar Ladislav Kopriva, the man behind many Czech purges, likes to philosophize. Last November, after jailing Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky for "antistate activities," Kopriva said: "Our Czechoslovak traitors . .. can be compared with Russia's Trotsky ... Our conspiracies are not extraordinary, but only further evidence that our country is subject to the same laws of socialistic development as the Soviet Union...
...criminal in 1946, his widow Anneliese (nee Henkell) produced a legal compact that Henkell & Co. had been nudged into signing in 1942-when ex-Champagne Salesman von Ribbentrop was at the height of his power as Hitler's Foreign Minister. It stipulated that, if she requested it, son Rudolf would be appointed manager after he had worked for the firm two years...
...contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...
Said Otto grimly: Cousin Rudolf "will be put in a job where he can do the least possible harm...
Slouched glumly in his rehearsal seat, Rudolf Bing blinked at the unscheduled little scene on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An impromptu chorus of stagehands was standing among the singers, bellowing Happy Birthday to You, and looking at him. Bing recalled that it was indeed his birthday, his soth. He rose with a reflex smile. "Thank you, thank you," he said. "Those," he added wryly, "were the first words this afternoon that I could understand...