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Svoboda, Ludvík
(1895-1979). Victorious Czech general from World War II, who acqui-
esced in the 1948 Communist coup and was Communist president from 1968 to 1975.
Tyl, Josef Kajetán
(1808-56). Czech playwright and composer of the Czech half of the na-
tional anthem,
Where is my Home
?
Werfel, Franz
(1890-1945). One of the German Jewish literary circle that included Kafka,
Kisch and Brod.
Žižka,Jan
(died1424).Brilliant, blindmilitary leaderoftheTáborites, theradical factionof
the Hussites.