the Party newspaper [[Rudé Právo]] with the title "What Lies Ahead", he insisted that Dubcek's appointment at the January Plenum would further the goals of socialism and maintain the working class nature of the Party.

However, right after Dubcek assumed power, the scholar became chairman of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers and thus editor-in-chief of Literární noviny, which under Novotný had been filled with party loyalists. Goldstücker tested the boundaries of Dubcek's devotion