Last week the war was returning to where it had come from. A mighty ally of Czechoslovakia had advanced within a hundred miles of her eastern frontier. Five years, to the week, after German boots had ...

The Velvet Revolution occurred in 1989 in Czechoslovakia as the country transitioned from a one-party system under communism to a parliamentary government. The name Velvet Revolution came from the non ...

Old Aristide Briand called Eduard Benes the only “permanent Minister” in Europe. Others dubbed him “Europe’s smartest little statesman.” That was how he looked between the wars. He did not change but ...

The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...