PURGE OF COURTS
NEW REGIME’S AIM FRESH INSTITUTIONS (11 a.m.) PRAGUE, March 14. The Czech Mjrjster of Justice, Dr. Cepicka, predicTea. in a soeech today, drastic* reform of the legal system, including a purge of the courts, renewal of the trials of collaborators, and “offenders against national honour.” and the establishment of People's Courts of Justice. The defending lawyers will no longer defend and hide criminals from the law but defend only right and justice. The elections in May will confirm and approve the February events. The statements that M. Gottwald’s Cabinet instituted a dictatorship are slanders.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22586, 15 March 1948, Page 5
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