The virus of freedom had been so rife in Czechoslovakia that the country's new masters hardly knew where to begin to attack the endemic disease. But last week they were making a start, on some obvious fronts.
Premier Antonin Zapotocky (TIME, June 21) announced plans for further purges of the army,* the courts, the schools, the libraries, and the economy ("to erase the last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when...
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