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Czech Communists promptly began wrapping their promised bread with Communist threats. Communist Party Secretary Richard Slansky announced: "If anyone now dares to criticize the Soviet Union it will be a crime against the state." Communist Minister of Information Vaclav Kopecky more ominously added: "From now on anti-Communism is actually high treason." Retorted the National Socialist Svobodny Zitrek: "What are the Communists threatened by? Nothing but democracy...
Leading a field of 18 cyclists, 17 of whom crossed the Waban finish line, Vaclav E. Benes '50 triumphed in the Wellesley bike classic yesterday, going the 14 mile distance in nine minutes and 32 seconds...
...Another surge forward" for Czechoslovakia was predicted last night by Vaclav E. Benes '50, nephew of Dr. Edouard Benes, Czech President...
...hand for the occasion were Prague's Mayor Vaclav Macek and a "Monsieur Mong" representing the mayor of Chungking. But France's most important guest was Sidi Lamine, Bey of Tunis. He arrived wearing fez, black tunic and red gold-striped trousers. Across his chest shimmered the red sash of the Legion of Honor...
...shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making wars. The manufacturer kills himself. A patriotic mob kills the doctor. Off goes the now incurable dictator to lead his troops-the leprous skeleton on horseback...