EMIL HAVAS, 64, WAS CZECH EDITOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300500002-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 4, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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Publisher of Newspapers in
UzhgorodDies-=Chanipioned
Democracy in His country
emigrated to the United States.
He, wrote and lectured here in
behalf of the Czechoslovak
cause.
In 1942 Mr. Ha'vas became a
member of the biographicaisln-
dex , department of The New
Nork Times. In 1946, he `was : a
,part-time correspondent- of The
Times in Prague, and later a
freelance script writer for Radio
mi Havas of East igh-
tieth Street, a former newspaper
publisher in Czechoslovakia,
long identified with movements
here to restore democracy in
that country, died yesterday of
a 'thrombosis in Mount Sinai
Hospital, Miami Beach. He had
been spending the winter in
Florida. His was 64.
Fr. Havas, who was born in
Carpatho-Russia, attended the
Catholic gymnasium at Uzhgor
od, capital..of Carpatho-Russia,
'then the Protestant Law School
at Presov. He began his news-!
paper career in 1911 as a re-;
porter for a Presov newspaper.
Later Mr. Havas went _ to
Budapest and worked with The'
Uj Szo and Uz. Hirek until the!
Communist . revolution caused.
the closing of the papers in 1919.
He was sent to Carpatho-Russia
by the, Communists, but escaped
to the section occupied by the
Czechs,
After the treaty that ceded
Carpatho-Aussia to Czechoslo-
vakia, Mr. Havas started daily
newspapers, Uj Kozlony and
Munkacsi Kozlony, in Vzhgorod.
A member of the Agrarian par-
ty in Czechoslovakia, -he led
these papers until 1938, when he
of the circulation departinent ofj
The Times, and three sisters.
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