Word: beria
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...galité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted to a mere homme politique...
...with Beria's downfall and the triumph of Malenkov, the Soviet government seems to have decided to continue Stalin's emphasis on the Marxist theme of conflict with the non-Communist world. "Essentially, what is happening is politically not very different from the Stalin pattern of the last 25 years," Ulam stated...
...Beria's Fall Follows Precedent...
...Lavrenti Beria's fall from the Soviet hierarchy follows the pattern of his predecessors in running Russia's secret police, Fainsod observes...
...successors, Menzhinsky, Yagoda, and Yezhov, were either political nonentities or scapegoats in purges. Beria's rise, the author believes, was evidence of Stalin's tutelage rather than a boost from NKVD leadership...