Wholesale Czech Sackings
/?Re ceivecl Thursday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, March 3. Some 200,000 persons are beljeved to have been sacked in Czechoslovakia in a Communist purge of "reactionary elements." Many have been arrested without a warrant and without a charge against them.' The British Consulate at Prague is getting'100 personal and 500 written applications daily from people who want to leave the eountry. Czech security police who opposed last week's Comraunist coup have' been charged with "military insurrection," and will face trial soon. Action eo'mmittees have been told fhat they need not fear exeeeding their legal 6powers "as the.se will come later."
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1948, Page 5
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