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Anna Szczepańska, "Warszawa – Praga 1948–1968. Od nakazanej przyjaźni do kryzysu"

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Dejmek J.

Historia Slavorum Occidentis

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2012

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issue 1(2)

176-180

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Zpráva Jiřího S. Hájka o jeho diplomatické aktivitě po 21. srpnu 1968

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Dejmek J.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2016

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vol. 24

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issue 2

265-284

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This materials provides a commented printing of a previously unpublished secret report by ČSSR Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Prague Spring period of 1968, Jiří S Hájek, who prepared it for the needs of the ministry heads (and also party circles) following his return to Prague from his dramatic trip to New York and Geneva after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the armies of the Warsaw Pact. When the invasion occurred on 21 August, Hájek was in Yugoslavia on a holiday, as were three other members of O Černík’s government. Following the occupation, and also thanks to the anti-occupation stance of the Central Committee and most of the Prague government, he travelled via Vienna to New York where the UN Security Council had been convened. Here, as early as 21 August, the ČSSR’s provisional delegate to the UN, J Mužík, had spoken out against the occupation. Upon his arrival in New York on 24 August, Minister Hájek supported this stance, thus significantly helping to dismantle the Soviet lies that it was the Czechoslovak government which had invited the armies of the Warsaw Pact to its country. At the same time, however, he stressed that the ČSSR would remain an ally of the USSR. In subsequent days, Hájek no longer pursued further discussions of the Czechoslovak cause in the Council; on the contrary, in the spirit of the instructions of President L Svoboda (who was at the time holding negotiations with Brezhnev on dealing with the crisis further) he left New York and travelled to Geneva for UN negotiations on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. From there, he returned to Prague at the beginning of September.

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MINISTR ZAHRANIČNÍCH VĚCÍ VLADIMIR CLEMENTIS, JEHO ÚŘAD A JEHO DIPLOMATÉ (PŘÍSPĚVEK K PROBLÉMU FORMOVÁNÍ DIPLOMACIE KOMUNISTICKÉHO ČESKOSLOVENSKA V LETECH 1948 – 1949)

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Dejmek J.

Historický časopis (Historical Journal)

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2010

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vol. 58

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issue 3

497-531

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The study is concerned with the activities of Vladimir Clementis (1901-1952) in directing the diplomacy of Czechoslovakia, especially in the role of minister of foreign affairs in the period 1948-1950. Clementis, leftist intellectual and 'undogmatic' communist as a head of Prague diplomacy, after the communist coup of February 1948, still attempted to achieve some degree of autonomy in the foreign policy of people's democratic Czechoslovakia. However, the growing Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West reduced the space for such a policy almost to zero. The views of Moscow became the deciding factor for the diplomatic activity of Czechoslovakia. The majority of specific steps, including the appointment of personnel to the Prague diplomatic apparatus, were not decided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but by the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In February 1949, Clementis was forced to introduce a radical reorganization of his office according to the model of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which gave the Prague foreign ministry roughly the organizational structure. In relation to the overall development of world politics, Clementis had to give up most of his more independent positions. However, pressure from the 'Stalinists' led by V. Siroky, led him being deprived of his post in March 1950 and replaced by Siroky himself. Clementis was fallen victim to the fabricated political trial in 1952.

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Anna Szczepańska, "Warszawa – Praga 1948–1968. Od nakazanej przyjaźni do kryzysu"

Zpráva Jiřího S. Hájka o jeho diplomatické aktivitě po 21. srpnu 1968

MINISTR ZAHRANIČNÍCH VĚCÍ VLADIMIR CLEMENTIS, JEHO ÚŘAD A JEHO DIPLOMATÉ (PŘÍSPĚVEK K PROBLÉMU FORMOVÁNÍ DIPLOMACIE KOMUNISTICKÉHO ČESKOSLOVENSKA V LETECH 1948 – 1949)