CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Morning of March 10

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The Visitor. Twenty minutes later a man in civilian clothes, carrying a towel on his arm, entered the apartment, said something in a low voice to Clementis and Nosek, walked toward the bedroom. When a policeman barred the way, the newcomer, reported Teply, said in Russian: "Don't be stupid, fellow, let me pass." The visitor remained alone with Masaryk's body half an hour. Then, concluded Teply, Nosek called all in the apartment together and warned them: they had not "seen or heard a thing."

What happened to Dr. Teply? Three or four months later, Sulzberger reports, he died in Prague police headquarters. He had accidentally taken, it was said, a "wrong injection."