CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Big Brother

Jiri Hajek first revealed himself to be a Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London.

He was as loyal a servant as Big Brother could wish. Discovering a concealed microphone in his office, Hajek concluded that the decadent British were spying...

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