ZAPOTOCKY DEAD
NEW YORK. November 13.
Mr Antonin Zapotocky, the Communist President of Czechoslfvakia since 1953. died early today after a long heart illness, the American Associated Press reported from Vienna. He would have been 73 next month.
The son of a tailor who was one of the founders of Czechoslovakia's first Socialist Party, Mr Zapotocky grew up in an atmosphere of revolution in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, and was arrested several times before World War I.
After the Communist takeover in 1948. in which he played a leading role, the party leader, Mr Klement Gottwald, picked him to be Premier. Mr Gottwald became President, and when he died in 1953. Mr Zapotocky moved up.
During the succeeding years, Mr Zapotocky remained much in the background of Czech public life. With the new theory of collective leadership in force in the Soviet Union and the satellites, he was not idolised as a national hero as •Mr Gottwald had been.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 15
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