U.S. CZECH RELATIONS
Cool Reception To Diplomat
(Rec. 8 20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 29.
The new Czech Ambassador to the United States, Mr Vladimir Prochazka, said to-day that Czechoslovakia “will not yield to any pressure” to release the American reporter, William Oatis. He asserted that the case was closed from the legal standpoint. Mr Prochazka made a defiant statement to reporters after his first meeting with the Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson). State Department officials said that Mr Acheson did not shake hands with Mr Prochazka but curtly handed him a copy of the recently-passed Congressional resolution calling for a boycott of all United States trade with Czechoslovakia until Oatis was freed. Oatis, the former Associated Press bureau manager in Prague, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Communist People’s Court which found him guilty of espionage. Mr Acheson told Mr Prochazka that tension between the United States and Czechoslovakia would continue to mount until Oatis is released.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9
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