CZECH MINISTER RESIGNS
OCT OP FAVOUR WITH COMINPOBSI __ I (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) PRAGUE, March 14. The Prime Minister, M. Anton Zapotocky, announced to-day at a cabinet meeting that the Foreign Minister, MVladimir dementis, had resigned, and that the Vice-Premier, William Siroky, had been appointed as his sueCGSSOI*. No reason was given for Clementis’s resignation. Rumours that he had fallen into disfavour with Cominform leaders because of “deviations” started last November 'When he was at the United Nations Assembly at Lake Success as leader of the Czechoslovak delegation. dementis became Foreign Min.istpr in the spring of 1948 shortly after the death of the then Foreign Minister, M. Jan Masaryk: It had frequently been reported that he was at odds with other Czech. Communist leaders because of his ‘ ,tnqp* erate” approach to domestic and foreign affairs.— Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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