Office of president makes public first of Peroutka articles it considers controversial
Prague Castle made public on Monday the first of several articles by 20th century journalist Ferdinand Peroutka which it considers controversial, the Czech News Agency said Monday. President Zeman’s spokesman Jiří Ovčáček telegraphed last week the office of the president would do so in the coming days; the article was published in Přítomnost (The Presence) in February of 1939 but is not a written piece the president mentioned earlier this year called “Hitler is a gentleman” which he alleged the journalist had written. No evidence of such an article has been uncovered. Peroutka’s granddaughter Terezie Kaslová has challenged the claim and said last week she would sue the Czech state for slander. The president’s spokesman and team have been searching for said article; if it is not found President Zeman has promised to apologize.