Word: wenceslaus
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Warsaw watched 600,000 march. Prague staged its celebration in historic Wenceslaus Square, where citizens had wept when the Nazis swept in. Paris had a divided holiday-a traditional left-wing parade and a rival Gaullist music festival. Rome listened to speeches in the jampacked Piazza del Popolo. Peking's 200,000 celebrants chanted "Long live Sino-Soviet alliance...
...Communist Prague, two trash collectors sat in a cafe on St. Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
Goaded beyond endurance, the Labor M.P. for Rochdale, Dr. Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, burst out: "You are a dirty...
...Gottwald now confronted Benes, his purpose was again clear: to break necks. He led the ailing, frail old man to the study window and pointed at the intricate baroque splendors of the city below. Benes saw thousands of Communist demonstrators in St. Wenceslaus Square. Beyond Prague's gilded spires, Benes could glimpse his country's fertile hills, and beyond them he sensed the inescapable proximity of Russia. Gottwald said bluntly that unless Benes gave in, there would be a general strike and bloodshed...
Dusk began to shroud the castle and the city below. In St. Wenceslaus Square, Prague's Communist Mayor Vaclav Vacek was addressing the crowd. Suddenly he spotted Gottwald's familiar Russian Zis limousine speeding into the square between its motorized police escort. "And there they come now on their shiny red motorcycles with the blue headlights!" he shouted. "They are guarding Comrade Gottwald who is bringing us new and joyful tidings...