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...insignificant figure in Europe is Dr. Smeral of Prague. He sits with the Communist contingent of 30 Deputies. He can throw an inkwell clear across the arc of Parliament at the Conservatives with fair accuracy.* But nobody in Czechoslovakia would pay serious attention to Dr. Smeral if his wife's maiden name had not been Dzhugashvili...
...Smeral's wife is Steel's sister. She was told to pack up and prepare to leave Czechoslovakia last week. The police who told her to pack told reporters that she had been caught "engaging in Communist agitation in the Ostrau industrial area...
...boldly as Mr. Curtis of Washington ever fought for the rights of his sister Mrs. Gann, Dr. Smeral of Prague began to battle for his wife's rights. "Scandalous!" he cried, though no one heeded. "I have been elected to Parliament as a Communist by Communist constituents. Yet the police now propose to expatriate my wife for advocating the doctrines of her own husband and his constituents. Scandalous...
...Deputies and the Japanese Diet, described in the last issue of TIME, comes the news of tumultuous scenes in the Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal...
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