QUIET COLD TERROR IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
Received Friday, 12.40 a.m. LONDON, Ararch 18. ^ There is "a quiet cold terror" in t.'zechoslovakia, said thc Labour Co:n uioner Air. Richard Crossman after his visit to Czeehoslovalcia. The Czech Communists had got hold o.f the working elasses and the poliee. "Thev gain ed power first by a coalition and then liy eliminating the coalition. It is not u Russian -oc.cupation. It'is pretty lilce the Tito setup in l'uogslavia. ' ' He had been told that manj- people would be tried for' niilitary espionage. , rlhc Government' plaved up the working class all the time and the mi.dd.le elasse/. eitlier suMenly- or aQtive-ly. ; opposed • thc regime. .A nnmber of people would In prepared tp dp- auylhing.". , ll ,y . ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1948, Page 5
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