Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Police & General Svoboda. The National Socialist was one of four non-Communist parties which had brought on the crisis. Fortnight before, its leaders, together with those of the Slovakian Democrat, Catholic People's and Social Democrat parties, had caused a showdown. They caught Police Boss Nosek firing non-Communist policemen and replacing them with Reds. When Nosek refused to reinstate the men, 15 non-Communist cabinet members boycotted the cabinet...
Tension mounted. Nosek raised a cry which, for all its dull repetition in eastern Europe, has cost many a man his head in Communism's march to power. He "discovered" a plot against the state. Equally ominous was the act of General Ludvik Svoboda. As Minister of National Defense he was listed as a man of no party, but in the pinch his advice to the troops read: "The Army must seek a stronger brotherhood with the Soviet Union...
Last week, while Correspondent Thompson bounded about Prague, President Eduard Benes sent his Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, War Minister Ludvik Svoboda...
Since then Svoboda has been Russia's favorite non-Russian hero. When not with his army, Svoboda has been preaching a close Czech-Russian union. When the Pan-Slav conference met in Moscow four months ago, his appeals were among the most urgent...
...Czechs, as to the Russians, the Bulgars and the Slovaks, there was magic in the name of this handsome giant -for in most Slav languages the word svoboda means freedom...