Word: zdenek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said Fierlinger: "Things will be better for all of us." Cried one worker: "We Socialists helped the Communists to publish one of their papers at our plant. This is what...
Since you printed the letter from "Zdenek" telling of his gradual acceptance of some of the changes brought about by the Communist rise to power in Czechoslovakia, I though your readers might be interested in this letter I recently received from a friend in Eastern Germany...
...printed in Tuesday's CRIMSON, which, he claims, expresses typical Czechoslovak student opinion on the February Revolution. I cannot accept this letter as representative. First, Czechoslovakia is today a police state as witnessed by the repression of the very student opposition referred to in that letter of Mr. Zdenek--even if the student wounded was wounded by a stray bullet. With all communication controlled it is obvious both to us and the sender of this letter that he would send nothing that might endanger his health. Perhaps to curry favor Mr. Zdenek would send this letter endorsing the Regime. Certainly...
Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...