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demonstrably capable of putting his men in key Party and government 
positions and endowed with a special talent for negotiating with 
the Soviets. The recent "2000 Words" Declaration of the Czechoslovak 
ultra.liberals did not directly praise Dubcek, while the harsh 
Prav~ article of 11 July, responding to the "2000 Words," did not 
directly attack him. Perhaps Dubcek himself does not know whether, 
if Czechoslovakia should go the road of Hungary in 1956, he would 
play the role of Kadar, the reluctant Soviet puppet, or Nagy, the 
reluctant national martyr. 
4. In any case, the Czechoslovak leadership is not acting on the initiative of Dubcek alone. It includes people like Premier Cernik, Party Secretary Cisar, and Presidium members Kriegel and Smrkovsky, who are essentially liberals, and who, in the face of the most recent Soviet pressures have been resolute, if not defiant. As a group they probably desire to do almost anything to adjust the pace of the reform in order to preclude further Soviet interference in Czechoslovakia. But they feel the need to remove the conservatives from the Central Committee quickl.Y, before those opponents have a chance to unite in desperation, and they are reluctant to move forcibly against the ultraliberals. The people who supported the "2000 Words" Declaration, which Moscow 
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