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Probably no Communist will ever play the villain's role as sensationally as the late Lavrenty Beria of Moscow. But in Bucharest last week, Moscow's Rumanian satellites staged a highly professional road-show version of the melodrama, and the lead was played in fine style by Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania who climbed from a locksmith's shop to a Communist education in Moscow and up to the posts of Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and No. 3 Red in postwar Rumania. Purged in 1952, Luca has since been in prison. Last week Bucharest announced that...
...Beria Was Shot." After three days debate, Premier Scelba gave his answer. "A young man has been arrested on the charge of manslaughter, a crime for which he will have to answer personally," said he coolly. "We are charged with not having acted in this matter. But we do not yet know the details of the charges nor the motives for this crime." As for the Communist insistence that a minister must answer for all the acts of subordinates, even their crimes, Scelba was scathing: the U.S. Secretary of State was not believed culpable because one of his subordinates, Alger...
...least Beria himself was shot," yelled a Communist Senator...
...first TIME cover to carry the signature of "Giro" was that of General Dwight Eisenhower (Sept. 13. 1943). Since then Guy has done some 60 cover portraits for TIME. One which he remembers rather quizzically was the cover on Russia's former police boss, Lavrenty Beria (July 20, 1953) During his work on Beria, a rush order came from another magazine for a portrait of St. Paul. "It was," says Guy, "a matter of working alternate days on good and evil...
...writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin. Gorin, the titan of the title, is intentionally modeled on Russia's late great writer, Maxim Gorky, and in chronicling his fall Author Gouzenko stages scenes with other Russian VIPs, e.g., Stalin, Malenkov, Beria (who wears the name Veria, plus the identifying pince...