Volume 19, Number 3 · August 31, 1972
A Letter
By Jiri Pelikan
Jirí Pelikán, aged forty-nine, was a leading figure in the 'Prague Spring.' As director of Czechoslovak TV he encouraged an unprecedented policy of freedom of information. He was also chairman of the foreign affairs commission of the Parliament, and during the secret Fourteenth Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party held in a Prague factory a few hours after the Soviet invasion, in August, 1968, was elected to the Central Committee. He took part in the anti-Nazi resistance, and was a member of the Communist Party from 1939 to his expulsion in 1969. He has since been living abroad. In Prague he is considered one of the main spokesmen of the opposition of the Husák Regime.
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