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...become apparent in practical policies. Last week the Russian attitude was stiffening like a wet sheet in Berlin's icy wind. Some observers guessed that the Soviet's local representatives were laying groundwork for the Moscow conference. They noted that the new intransigence followed soon after Lavrenty Beria's visit to Berlin last month...
...proposed the following: Premier, Molotov; First Vice Premier, Beria; Foreign Minister, Mikoyan; First Secretary of the Party [Stalin's own original post of power], Zhdanov; Second Secretary, Malenkov; Minister of Defense, Voroshilov; First Vice Minister of Defense, Bu-denny; President of the Council of the Union, Andreyev; President of the Council of Nationalities, Bulganin; President of the Supreme U.S.S.R. Council, Shver...
Survival of the Fittest. This arrangement of the succession fits all known factors. Molotov has long been Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...
...Gang. On the official Politburo list (more important than gorodki scores) Zhdanov now stands fourth-after Stalin, Molotov and the hated Lavrenty Beria, head of the secret police. Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer. Others are Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick...
...vacation the Politburo got into a fight. Communist Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Communist Party Control Commission Andrei Andreiev and People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Mikoyan urged a moderate Soviet foreign policy. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria were for a more aggressive policy. Molotov had acted on this basis at the last London conference. When Stalin returned, he threw his weight on the moderate side and stressed the overwhelming importance for Russia of getting along with the U.S. and Britain at least long enough to attain a substantial...