predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place imagesize party birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
jan masaryk viliam Široký 03 december 1952 tisovec hungary , gömör és kis-hont county , kingdom of prague , czechoslovakia 120px czechoslovak communist party 20 september 1902 foreign minister of czechoslovakia 1948 bratislava_relief_vladimira_clementisa . jpg vladimír clementis
 1950 vladimír clementis
vladimír clementis

vladimír `` vlado '' clementis -lrb- september 20 , 1902 tisovec - december 3 , 1952 prague -rrb- was a slovak minister , politician , lawyer , publicist , literary critic , author and a prominent member of the czechoslovak communist party .
he married lída pátková , a daughter of a branch director of czech mortgage bank in bratislava , in march 1933 .
he became a communist mp in 1935 .
before the beginning of the world war ii , in 1938 , he emigrated to paris .
his criticism of the molotov-ribbentrop pact in 1939 , contradicted the policies of the czechoslovak communist party exiled in moscow and triggered an intra-party investigation overseen by viliam Široký -lrb- who came to paris from moscow -rrb- .
at the outbreak of world war ii in september 1939 , he was put into prison as a known communist , and later evacuated to a british concentration camp .
after release , he decided to spend the war in london , where he broadcast speeches on the radio calling for all slovaks to fight against the nazis .
returning in 1945 , he became vice-minister of foreign affairs under the first post-war government .
as a representative of czechoslovakia , he signed un charter in san francisco on 26 june 1945 .
after a coup d'état , which he helped organise , he succeeded jan masaryk as foreign minister .
in 1948 , in his new role , he played a decisive role in organising czechoslovakian 's part of the operation balak by providing a help to the newly founded israeli air force .
in 1950 , he was forced to resign amid accused of being a `` deviationist '' .
he was then arrested and officially charged for an illegal attempt to cross the state boundaries , later changed for a more serious crime to be a `` bourgeois nationalist '' and participating in the trotskyite-titoite-zionist conspiracy .
after being convicted in the slánský show trial , he was hanged , along with rudolf slánský , on 3 december 1952 .
his ashes were scattered on a road close to prague .
his wife , lída , received only her husband 's two pipes and tobacco and was discharged from a prison .
in the famous photograph from 21 february 1948 -lrb- the story is described in `` the book of laughter and forgetting '' by milan kundera -rrb- , vladimír clementis stands next to klement gottwald , who later , after a coup d'état , became the president of czechoslovakia .
when vladimír clementis was executed in 1952 , he was erased from the photograph -lrb- along with the photographer karel hájek -rrb- .
