Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close of World War II, when the victorious armies of West and East met and momentarily fraternized, a U.S. correspondent asked a Russian officer over lunch what he thought the war was all about. Replied the Russian: "Svoboda [Freedom]!" The correspondent never forgot that answer. Journalist Russell Davenport, who in 1940 had quit his job as FORTUNE'S managing editor to direct Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign, was also a poet (My Country) and philosopher. To his brooding, deep-thrusting mind, the exchange with the Red army man summarized "the predicament of the free world." It drove...
From Ostrava, in the Czech Ruhr, Nova Svoboda reported: "At Vaclav, Zone, Czechoslovak Pioneer Mines, Bohumin Iron Works and the Stalingrad Iron Works in Liskovec, some workers let themselves be misled by provocateurs in the service of the bourgeoisie . . . Considerable unrest and provocations took place . . . State and labor discipline was seriously disturbed . . . Loyal workers liquidated the subversive activities...
...balloon, pillow-shaped, of glistening, translucent polyethylene, slowly oozed hydrogen through the plastic pores and sank to earth; it would give a ghostly effect as it bounced along the ground over hedges or lodged against walls and trees. On it, in five-inch letters, was printed the single word svoboda (Czech for "freedom"). Inside were more leaflets...
...went to the American embassy and got...the address of Clementis' apartment. Then I went back to the office and got Svoboda and Wojdinek (two A.P. staffers convicted with Oatis) to go with...
Then, a month ago, ominous things began to happen at his bureau. One morning at dawn, A.P.'s young Czech translator, Tomas Svoboda, was whisked away in a police raid on his home. Shortly, two other Czech employees vanished. Last week on Sunday, worried Correspondent Oatis himself hurried into the U.S. embassy to report to the clerk on duty that he was being shadowed by Czech secret police 24 hours a day. Oatis said he would return next day. He did not return...