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Czechoslovakia's President Antonin Novotny, an unregenerate old-line arch-Stalinist, has doggedly resisted the "liberalization" urged by Moscow. Though Novotny has purged a few of the most loathed and offensive Stalinists from his government, notably ex-Premier Viliam Siroky and colleagues who were responsible for the show trials of 1952, Czechs have no illusions about the nature of the regime. Says one Prague cynic: "Why don't they just come right out and admit what they are? We wouldn't mind if he became Baron von Novotny and had his estates...
Five purges have rocked the Czechoslovak Communist Party in less than a year. In the latest, down went two Deputy Premiers, the Ministers of Finance, Food, Transport and Fuel-and Premier Viliam Siroky, 61. Siroky, announced the regime of Red President Antonin Novotny, was guilty of "shortcomings in his work" and "certain mistakes in his past political activity...
...Also in India last week: Red Czechoslovakia's Premier Viliam Siroky, who tactfully left Delhi to tour the Indian countryside shortly before Macmillan's arrival...
There was less reticence in the satellite states, where the purge of Jewish Communists has been taken up by party newspapers, particularly in Poland. But the "Zionist conspiracy" still found a stout supporter in Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Viliam Siroky, who admitted last week that "certain manifestations of antiSemitism" had been wrongfully introduced into the trial of Rudolf Slansky and 13 other Czech Communist leaders in 1952. He added that there was a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, one of the "crimes" Slansky had been charged with and for which, said Siroky, he had been justly executed...
...Pieces. The others spoke their set pieces. Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland said he viewed revived German militarism (Western, that is) with alarm, and endorsed Molotov's suggestion for a united command. Premier Viliam Siroky of Czechoslovakia said he did, too. Deputy Premiers or Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary and Rumania said they "eagerly," "warmly," "enthusiastically" supported Comrade Molotov's proposals. That took four days...