''Conscience Forbids Me To Spread Such Lies''
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Received Tuesday, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, March 29. M. Iva-n Blatny, the 29-year-old Czech poet and winter who arrived in London on March 27 as a member of the delegation of the Czech Syndicate of Authors, annoimced tcday that he was resigning from the syndicate and from the Communist Party. He will not return to Czeclioslovakia. The delegation came as the guests -of the British Council. M. Blatny said that if he followed the official Czech instructions, he would have to assure the British public that the Czech situation •was an expression of the people's will. "Conscience forbids me to spread such lies." M. Blatny said the Communist Party had sent out instructions ro all Czech writers, which gave a list of themes for poems. The instructions told writers to celebrate the May elections in which, according to instructions, the "people will confirm the authority of the Com.munist Party under th^ wise leadership of Clement Gottwald."
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1948, Page 5
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