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rally. sounded keynote of cam
paign against domestic and foreign
reaction" He said: 1--WE will have a
complete change"
3. The Communist regime extend
ed it's influence to the schools. The
Communist paper Rude Praco said
classrooms in Bohemia will display
pictures of Prime Minister Stain.
Interference Charged.
The three-power denunciation
which had appeared in the United
States Information Service windows
called the Gottwald regime dis
guised dictatorship. The statement
was issued Thursday by the United
States, Britain and France. 1t was
only referred to here by newspapers
this morning. Their stories from
the government news agency said
Czechoslovakia considered the state
ment an interference in its public
affairs.
The information service is Sec
ton of the State Department., but
is in a building in another part
of town from the American Embassy.
The Information Ministry an
r1ounced htat Time and Life Maga-
zines and the Chicago Tribune are
banned from entry into Czecho-
slovakia.
Eight British, 8 French. Belgian
and 2 Swiss publications and 2
Bohemian papers publihsed in the
United States, Narod and Katoli,
also are banned.
v. A. Zorin, Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister and former Ambassador to
Prague, left this morning for Mos
COW after a To-day visit, the gov
ernment radio announced.
Members of the government, includ-
ing Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk,
saw him off at the airport.
Complete Change Pledged.
Meantime, Premier Klement Gott-
valid promised "a complete change"
for this nation in a statement at
the opening of farmers and
peasants rally here.
Merely changing a few pepole in
the government Is not enough" he
declared. New stage settings are not
enough. We will become merciless in
getting rid of agents of domestic
and foreign reaction"
The farmers rally was arranged
as a companion piece to a trades
union assembly last Sunday. Some
observers believed that assembly
gave the Premier the last push he
needed towardgetting his party into
power.
The labor group, headed by An
toyin zapotocky, stood behind Gott-
wald and backed him up with a
token strike and the threat of a
general strike.
Some believed that it's action was
the clincher for Gottwald's argu-
ments with Nonparty President
Eduard Benes, forcing the latter to
accept the new cabinet Wednesday.
The farmers rally was planned as
O crisis began in Czechoslovakia a
week ago.
Movies Open All Night.
Some felt the farmers rally would
have prov ID Gottwalds Party with
a solidarity gesture had it been
needed.
Prague went all out for the visit
ing rural Czechs. For the first time
in the city's history the film houses
stayed open all night so they could
see the movies
Police and factory militia were
to march this afternoon in the new
governments first martial spectacle
in Prague.
Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was
mot in" to callers this morning.
Masaryk is holdover from the old
cabinet, like Gottwald, and son of
Czechoslovakia's first president, the
late Thomas G. Masaryk.
His secretary declined to say whom
he was seeing, if anyone.
The Communist newspaper Rude
Pravo said, however, he had been
visited by M. s. Bodrov, Soviet
Charge d'Affaires. It said Bodrov
conveyed to him the thanks of the
Russian government for the stand
taken by Polish, Yugoslav and
Czechoslovak Foreign Ministers in
recent conference here on Ger
many.
(The Foreign Ministers said
any merger of the western zones
Of Germany would carry danger
of war. Their declaration re-
ferred to a London conference on
Western Germany arranged by
the United States, Great Britain
and France. This conference
started Monday)
Benes Sees Cabinet Chief.
President Benes installed the
Communist-packed cabinet yester-
day at his residence, Hradcany Pal
ace.
Later yesterday DR.. Benes and his
wife left Prague for their country
home at Sezimovo Usti. Before leav-
ing, Dr. Benes conferred with Gen.
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