Czechoslovakia’s Abnormal “Normalization”

Prior to his arrival in the United States in 1949, Edward Taborsky was Czechoslovakia’s ambassador to Sweden. During World War II he served as personal aide to the late President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia. His earlier academic career included teaching at Charles University (Prague, Czechoslovakia), the University of Stockholm (Sweden), Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee. He is author of nine books and many articles in scholarly journals; his book, Communism in Czechoslovakia: 1948–1960, was published by Princeton University Press in 1961, and his upcoming book, Communist Penetratic i of the Third World, will be published by Roh rt Speller and Sons (New York).