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From Bucharest last week came another of those grimly familiar communiques out of the Land of Darkness at Noon: "Ana Pauker has been relieved of her functions by the Presidium of the National Assembly." And so another Cominformist bit the dust. Five years ago, 18 Communist big shots gathered somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform...
...RUMANIA-Ana Pauker, 58, porcine First Lady of Communism reigned in Red Rumania as Foreign Minister and Politburocrat; more than any other Rumanian Red, was the link between Moscow and Bucharest. Began sliding last month (TIME, June 9) when accused of "crimes against the state." Confessed to deviation both right & left, and saw her power transferred to her rival, Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who, along with her, was Rumania's spokesman at the Comin-fornrs birth. Purged last week as Foreign Minister. Probable fate: public trial, imprisonment or death...
...Ana was left with her title of Foreign Minister, and was even allowed to sit on the ministers' bench one day last week while the National Assembly awarded the premiership of Red Rumania to her archrival, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.* But, no doubt about it, she was in bad odor...
...state, support of counter-revolutionary elements, suppression of criticism, double-dealing opportunism, laziness in the development of collective farms, unprincipled relations within the party, tolerance toward the kulaks, rightist deviations and-to keep things in balance-leftist deviations. The fact was, said the Communists with horror, that Ana had taken to living on "a slope of aristocracy...
...swinging band every night for two years, learned things about rhythm that put her in solidly with the hepcats, made her first hit records (Why Don't You Do Right?, Let's Do It). She married Guitarist Dave Barbour, wrote a nonsense bestseller, Maňana, with him before they split up a year...