The Council of Free Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovak political emigration in the United States 1948-1960)

The present study deals with the attitudes of the Czechoslovak political em igration in the years 1948-1960. The author points namely to the internal d iscrepancies in the top exile body in the USA - Board of Free Czechoslovaki a. Soon after board was established, there appeared personal discrepancies, as well as discrepancies in programme and in conception. In the year 1951 they developed into real split of the third resistance. Different viewpoint s on the relation between Slovaks and Czechs in future democratic Czechoslo vakia were the key issues. However, constant discords, crises, and personal hatred often moved the fight for new Czechoslovakia into background. It wa s the arrival of new, post-August, exile generation of the early seventies represented the return to the original fight for democratic and free Czecho slovakia.