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Typescript transcript of interview with Frantisek Preucil, Chairman, Czech Commercial Traders Union, 1947-1948, and member of the Czech Interim Assembly and Member of Parliament, 1947-1948, relating to the reaction of the Czech government to the US proposals that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, [Apr] 1947; Preucil's support for the inclusion of Czechoslovakia in the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948; the visit of Klement Gottwald, Czech Prime Minister, and Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Moscow, USSR, Jul 1947; the communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; the reported suicide of Masaryk, Mar 1948; speculation that Masaryk was murdered, Mar 1948; the cessation of democracy and independence in Czechoslovakia, Feb-Mar 1948; Masaryk's funeral ceremony, Prague, Mar 1948; Preucil's arrest by the communists and subsequent trial, sentence of death and imprisonment for fourteen years, Nov 1949-[1963].
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