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...Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached a position of first rank-though still lower than that of the party's watchdog of the military, Marshal Bulganin...
...internal weakness and severe production failures, at a time when Communism is trying to give the appearance of unbeatable strength and inexorable influence across Asia. In Red China's only public reaction to the Kremlin turnover. Premier Chou-En-lai cabled a curiously minimal message of congratulation to Bulganin. "I am confident," said Chou. "that you. under the leadership of the united monolithic Central Committee . . . will surely make great achievements in the cause of the great Soviet peoples' Communist construction and in defense of peace." In the light of the news, the reference to "the united monolithic" Soviet...
...already printed its last edition, got the wire-service stories in time to put out 24,400 copies of a "Late City Extra" with a 450-word bulletin dropped into Page One. The Times Sunday Magazine hastily pulled a Seventh Fleet picture off its front cover, substituted one of Bulganin, Mao and Khrushchev. The Russian censors, swamped by the flood of words, let many a piece of copy slip through which ordinarily might have been spiked; e.g., A.P. reported: "Muscovites questioned at random appeared bored at the news. 'What difference does it make?' one asked. Another said...
...directly tipped off. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr., his aide, Frank Coniff. and his chief European correspondent, Kingsbury ("Joe") Smith, on a brief visit to Russia got a tip from Khrushchev himself. In an interview three days before the change, for no apparent reason, Khrushchev mysteriously suggested they interview Bulganin, and added that "probably early next week" would be a good time to see him. They made no mention of this in their dispatches, instead reported: "Khrushchev . . . ridicules the Western reports [of] a split between him and . . . Malenkov...
...Moscow radio came detailed instructions from the Kremlin to every editor: "Tomorrow's papers should publish on their first page the picture of the joint meeting of the Supreme Soviet with Mr. Molotov on the rostrum . . . Next should follow the Khrushchev speech. Underneath, the appointment of Comrade Bulganin...