Word: svoboda
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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...
Last week, while Correspondent Thompson bounded about Prague, President Eduard Benes sent his Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, War Minister Ludvik Svoboda...
...this victory Russia gave medals to 86 of the men and women who fought at the crossing. Svoboda himself journeyed to the Kremlin, where the Soviet Union's peasant President Mikhail Kalinin pinned on his broad chest the coveted Order of Lenin...
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...