Strakova Akademie in Prague's sleepy, baroque Mala Strana (Little Town) had been a school for young nobles under the Habsburgs and a Gestapo court under the Nazis. Last week it had a new tenant. Out of its modernized office suites walked mousy-looking Social Democrat Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, to be Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia. In came tough-looking Communist Vice Premier Klement Gottwald to be Premier.
A self-educated farmer's son (who has a vast repertory of Czech folk songs, wears caps instead of hats and loves his family), Gottwald had worked and waited for...
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