Northern (N): Czechoslovakia (NC). Internal Political Situation

A file of correspondence and reports concerning Czechoslovak domestic politics. Subjects covered include changes within government bodies; the positions of leading politicians; a bid to revitalise the role of the Czechoslovak National Assembly; and the regime's propaganda machine. Further documents cover the regime's new "cadre policy"; Czechoslovakia's economic and political policies; the position of social democrats within Czechoslovakia; and claims that Czechoslovakia is to issue text-books on "modern socialism in practice". The file also includes an appeal from the former Czechoslovak Minister of Justice, Prokop Drtina, for confirmation from British sources that he did not ask Britain for help during the 1948 communist takeover of Czechoslovakia; a press article on General Alois Eliáš, the prime minister of the Czechoslovak protectorate under Nazi rule; and articles on the Prague uprising of 1945.