Zdeněk Fierlinger

Zdeněk Fierlinger, a former Czechoslovak diplomat and communist ally, became prime minister of a new provisional government, set up at Košice in Slovakia on April 3.

…the provisional government, headed by Fierlinger, that he had appointed in April. The vice premier was Gottwald, and the leaders of the other political parties also held vice premierships. A general election was scheduled to legitimize the provisional regime as well as to test the nation’s acceptance of this new…

Its premier was the pro-Soviet Zdeněk Fierlinger, a former diplomat who had represented the Czechoslovak government in Moscow; its cabinet contained ministers from four Czech and two Slovak political parties. The seven Communist ministers of the Košice government, however, not only formed the largest group from a single party but…