CRISIS IN PEOPLE'S PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300690008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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An internal and e r i crisis 3a developing as to tha leadership in tie.:.,
Paop .e vs Party. Thv effecta of the ouster of Dr. Heleme Koz luhova a year
ago are still being felt. Thery is increasing sentiment favoring hex? htxs-
baarnd, Minister Dr. Adolf Prochaz:sas for chairman of the party. Monsignor'
s, head of the party, hover has sought foram long time to get Procklazlca
appo:.n`c d as delegate to the United Nations. 1Jan t~saryk, however, has stead-
fastly xtfueed to remove Minister Dr. Jean Papssnek from this post,., insisting
that he is bound/by personal promise to keep him. Therefore it Is doubtful
now if Dr.. P.roeha.zka. would accept ever, a top United T tiorts position.
The t tional Scoia.1ist , and the GooW. Democrats are increasingly critical
of the part icipaatiOr of the People's Party in the National Front Government
w.iiwta. they t e ew inaf foot i. .~ lgr*o lr k rarely appears in cabinet
sae y u stl Ck1y very rr.asentiy he Ines c;aiJed again on the President, whom he
had not seen for a 3eear. t.1ni ster Hanna has frequently abstained from voting
dnrt. 3 t1 he r:,c:ent oriticai cabinot discussions, e.g.8 his sta in the revision
ax' ths3 b :kinRg ::law tas hrou3ht forth c c,r sG tions from his non-Communist
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